Emile Zola, L'assommoir /

This book offers a variety of approaches to Zola's masterpiece, published amid considerable controversy in 1876-7. L'Assommoir (the tale of a Parisian washerwoman who after a hard life turns to drink and dies in abject poverty) is analysed as a social and political novel, as a representati...

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Main Author: Baguley, David (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Series:Landmarks of world literature.
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