L'Assommoir by Emile Zola (Paperback)

L'Assommoir is one of the most famous novels in Emile Zola's Rougon-Macquart cycle, a powerful portrait of working-class life in nineteenth-century Paris. It follows the laundress Gervaise as she struggles to build a decent life amid poverty and the damage of alcohol. This Oxford World's Classics edition, translated by Brian Nelson, includes an introduction and notes for students and readers of classic French literature.