Assommoir
Working Women
Working class women
Spouses
Paris (france), fiction
Married women
French literature
France, fiction
Modern Literature
French
Married people, fiction
Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
Alcoholism
Poverty
Fiction, family life
Long Now Manual for Civilization
In literature
Manners and customs
Education
Social life and customs
Fiction
L'Assommoir is a study of alcoholism and poverty in the working-class districts of Paris. Gervaise Macquart, who is featured briefly in the first novel in the series, La Fortune des Rougon, is running away to Paris with her shiftless lover Lantier to work as a washerwoman in a hot, busy laundry. Af…
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