Search Results: Assommoir by Emile Zola

Gallimard Education, 1999-09-01. Mass Market Paperback. Used:Good.

Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The seventh novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart cycle, The Assommoir is the story of a woman's struggle for happiness in working-class Paris.

New. 'in this life, even if you don't ask for much you still end up with bugger all!' In a run-down quarter of Paris, Gervaise Macquart struggles to earn a living and support her family. She earns a pittance washing other people's dirty clothes in the local washhouse, and dreams of having her own laundry. But in order to start her business she must incur debt, and her feckless husband cannot resist the lure of the Assommoir, the local bar that supplies all the working men with cheap spirits and absinthe. As her money troubles grow, so Gervaise's life begins to spiral out of control, and she is trapped in a vicious web of want and neglect. The Assommoir is a pivotal novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series. In it he lays bare the terrible poverty of the Parisian underclass, living in overcrowded tenements, addicted to drink, a world of squalor, and casual violence. It contains some of Zola's most powerful and graphic writing, unforgettable portrayals of individuals and… Read More

pocket_book. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London: Vizetelly & Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1885. Hardcover. Original gilt-titled pictorial cloth, patterned endpages. Spine has been repaired, cloth is soiled, corners bumped. Scattered foxing, heaviest at endpages/edges. All plates present. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 294 pages .

Gallimard Education, 2008-09-01. Pocket Book. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Light brown cloth with paper label (which is chipped and scratched) on spine. Boards pushed in at bottom corner. Rubbing to boards. Some creasing to spine. Front hinge cracked. Frontispiece detached and laid in. Translated from the 97th French edition. Illustrated with sixteen page engravings from designs by Bellenger, Clairin, Amdre Gill, Leloir, Rose and Vierge. Pages browned. Some brown spots to front illustrations. Previous owner's name label affixed to front pastedown. Decorative endpapers (green floral pattern). Half title page has a tear and hole near top and hole near bottom. 16 pages of ads dated July, 1884 at rear.