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457 pages • first pub 1876 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780199538683
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date: 01 March 2009
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The seventh novel in the Rougon-Macquart cycle, L'Assommoir (1877) is the story of a woman's struggle for happiness in working-class Paris. At the center of the story stands Gervaise, who starts her own laundry and for a time makes a success of it...
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457 pages • first pub 1876 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780199538683
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date: 01 March 2009
Description
The seventh novel in the Rougon-Macquart cycle, L'Assommoir (1877) is the story of a woman's struggle for happiness in working-class Paris. At the center of the story stands Gervaise, who starts her own laundry and for a time makes a success of it...