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L'Assommoir

Émile Zola

61 chapters · 16 h 45 min · English

Read by Martin Geeson, David Lazarus, Anna Simon, Alan Brown, Alex Foster

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Émile François Zola (French pronunciation: [emil zɔˈla]) (2 April 1840 to 29 September 1902) was an influential French writer, the most important exemplar of the literary school of naturalism. More than half of Zola’s novels were part of a set of twenty novels about a family under the Second Empire collectively known as Les Rougon-Macquart.

L’Assommoir (1877) is the seventh novel in the series. Usually considered one of Zola’s masterpieces, the novel, a harsh and uncompromising study of alcoholism and poverty in the working-class districts of Paris, was a huge commercial success and established Zola’s fame and reputation throughout France and the world. (Summary edited from Wikipedia)

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