L'Assommoir

by Emile Zola

Overview

At the centre of the novel stands Gervaise, who starts her own laundry and for a time makes a success of it. But her husband Coupeau squanders her earnings in the Assommoir, the local drinking shop, and gradually the pair sink into poverty and squalor.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9782253002857
Publisher:	Centre d'Exportation du Livre Francais
Publication date:	01/09/1991
Series:	Le Livre de Poche , #97
Edition description:	French Edition
Pages:	566
Product dimensions:	4.30(w) x 6.90(h) x 1.10(d)
Language:	French

About the Author

Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (1840 - 1902) was a French novelist, playwright, journalist, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in the political liberalization of France and in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus, which is encapsulated in the renowned newspaper headline J'accuse. Zola was nominated for the first and second Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901 and 1902.