L'assommoir

Our rough guess is there are 114,250 words in this book.

At a pace averaging 250 words per minute, this book will take 7 hours and 37 minutes to read. With a half hour per day, this will take 15 days to read.

How long will it take you?

Enter your reading speed

You can take one of our WPM reading speed tests to find your reading speed.

Get it on Amazon Buy on Bookshop.org

We earn a commission on purchases

Author

Emile Zola

Contributions

Mauldon, Margaret. - Contributor

Publication

2009 - Oxford University Press, Oxford, England

Language

English

Word Count

114,250 words, Guess

Page Count

457 pages

Identifiers

Internet Archivelassommoir0000zola
Internet Archivelassommoir0000zola_z1n5
ISBN-139780199538683
ISBN-100199538689
Goodreads6372593

and 5 more

LibraryThing68677
Library of Congress Control Number2009290791
OCLC Control Number271771905
Better World Books9780199538683
Open LibraryOL23392962M

Classifications

DDC843/.8
LCCPQ2496 .M38 2009
LCCPQ2496 .M38 1998

and 1 more

LCCPQ2489

Description

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. After Lantier leaves her, she swears to never fall in love again. Until she meets Coupeau, a teetotal roofer and loving partner, whom she marries. Gervaise is enjoying the highs and lives her dream life as she opens her own laundry and their daughter Anna (nicknamed Nana) is born. Later Coupeau suffers an injury und gives up to the alcoholism. From that moment their life goes downward, experiencing several embarassing failures, ending up with irreparable debt and irrecoverable tragedies.