1970, ISBN: 9780140442311

New York. 1970. Penguin Books. Reprinted Penguin Classic Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0140442316. Translated from the French & With An Introduction by Leonard Tancock. 42… Mehr…

New York. 1970. Penguin Books. Reprinted Penguin Classic Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0140442316. Translated from the French & With An Introduction by Leonard Tancock. 423 pages. paperback. The cover shows a detail from 'L'Absinthe' by Edgar Degas, in the Louvre. keywords: Penguin Classic Paperback Literature French Translated 19th Century. FROM THE PUBLISHER - ‘I wanted to depict the inevitable downfall of the working-class family in the polluted atmosphere of our urban areas.' So Zola wrote of L'ASSOMMOIR (1872) which some critics rate as the greatest of his Rougon-Macquart novels. In the result the book triumphantly surmounts the author's moral and social intentions to become, perhaps, the first ‘classical tragedy' of working-class people living in the slums of a city - Paris. Vividly, without romantic illusion, Zola uses the coarse argot of the back-streets to plot the descent of the easy-going Gervaise through idleness, drunkenness, promiscuity, filth and starvation. The effect is at once humorous and pathetic. inventory #29345 ISBN: 0140442316., 0<

ISBN: 9780140442311

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ISBN: 9780140442311

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 dri… Mehr…

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. Media > Book, [PU: Penguin Books]<

ISBN: 9780140442311

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 dri… Mehr…

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. Media > Book, [PU: Penguin Books]<