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Émile Zola: L'Assommoir (Oxford World's Classics) [2009] paperback Condition:New their bonds dissolveThe seventh novel in the Rougon Macquart cycle, L'Assommoir (1877) is the story of a woman's struggle for happiness in working class Paris. It was a contemporary bestseller, outraged conservative critics, and launched a passionate debate about the legitimate scope of modern literature. At the centre of the novel stands Gervaise, who starts her own laundry and for a time makes a success of it. But her husband Coupeau squanders her earnings in the