L'Assommoir (1877) is the seventh novel in émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. 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.
Chapter 1
Gervaise had waited and watched for Lantier until two in the morning. Then chilled and shivering, she turned from the window and threw herself across the bed, where she fell into a feverish doze with her cheeks wet with tears.
For the last week when they came out of the Veau a Deux Tetes, where they ate, he had sent her off to bed with the children and had not appeared until late into the night and always with a story that he had been looking for work.
Chapter 1
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Chapter 2 Gervaise And Coupeau
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Chapter 3 A Marriage Of The People
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Chapter 4 A Happy Home
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Chapter 5 Ambitious Dreams
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Chapter 6 Goujet At His Forge
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Chapter 7 A Birthday Fete
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Chapter 8 An Old Acquaintance
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Chapter 9 Clouds In The Horizon
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Chapter 10 Disasters And Changes
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Chapter 11 Little Nana
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Chapter 12 Poverty And Degradation
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Chapter 13 The Hospital
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