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L'Assommoir

by Émile Zola

First published: 1876
Pages: 374

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00 - Author's preface and introduction
25:21
01 - Chapter I, part one
17:19
02 - Chapter I, part two
16:54
03 - Chapter I, part three
16:53
04 - Chapter I, part four
17:46
05 - Chapter II, part one
15:19
06 - Chapter II, part two
15:37
07 - Chapter II, part three
14:36
08 - Chapter II, part four
16:28
09 - Chapter III, part one
16:56
10 - Chapter III, part two
15:42
11 - Chapter III, part three
15:49
12 - Chapter III, part four
16:20
13 - Chapter III, part five
17:01
14 - Chapter IV, part one
13:52
15 - Chapter IV, part two
14:51
16 - Chapter IV, part three
13:52
17 - Chapter IV, part four
14:17
18 - Chapter IV, part five
15:05
19 - Chapter V, part one
16:31
20 - Chapter V, part two
16:41
21 - Chapter V, part three
16:42
22 - Chapter V, part four
16:46
23 - Chapter V, part five
16:06
24 - Chapter VI, part one
13:20
25 - Chapter VI, part two
13:51
26 - Chapter VI, part three
13:46
27 - Chapter VI, part four
12:46
28 - Chapter VI, part five
13:11
29 - Chapter VII, part one
17:39
30 - Chapter VII, part two
16:45
31 - Chapter VII, part three
17:17
32 - Chapter VII, part four
15:52
33 - Chapter VII, part five
18:25
34 - Chapter VIII, part one
16:40
35 - Chapter VIII, part two
16:34
36 - Chapter VIII, part three
18:01
37 - Chapter VIII, part four
16:43
38 - Chapter VIII, part five
18:13
39 - Chapter IX, part one
18:04
40 - Chapter IX, part two
15:46
41 - Chapter IX, part three
16:02
42 - Chapter IX, part four
14:56
43 - Chapter IX, part five
15:39
44 - Chapter X, part one
17:28
45 - Chapter X, part two
17:16
46 - Chapter X, part three
15:04
47 - Chapter X, part four
17:23
48 - Chapter X, part five
18:54
49 - Chapter XI, part one
17:00
50 - Chapter XI, part two
16:58
51 - Chapter XI, part three
16:04
52 - Chapter XI, part four
17:29
53 - Chapter XI, part five
17:40
54 - Chapter XII, part one
16:00
55 - Chapter XII, part two
16:21
56 - Chapter XII, part three
16:02
57 - Chapter XII, part four
18:09
58 - Chapter XII, part five
16:29
59 - Chapter XIII, part one
18:37
60 - Chapter XIII, part two
20:14

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Gervaise Macquart, a lame young laundress abandoned by her lover, tries to build a decent life in the slums of working-class Paris. For a while she succeeds, opening her own shop and finding modest happiness, but drink, debt, and the pressures of poverty close in from every side, and the neighborhood grog shop that gives the book its name drags her family down by degrees. The seventh novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series, it caused a scandal with its unflinching picture of alcoholism and hardship and its raw use of working-class speech. Pitiless yet deeply compassionate, it is one of the great novels of the industrial city. Free to download as a PDF or EPUB.

About the author

Émile Zola

Émile Zola (1840-1902) was a French novelist and the leading figure of literary naturalism. His twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart cycle traced one family under the Second Empire, and his open letter J'accuse in defense of Alfred Dreyfus reshaped the writer's role in public life.