A Paris laundress's modest hopes are slowly drowned by poverty and drink. Zola's harrowing study of working-class ruin.
Books mentioned in L'Assommoir (4)
Histoire de Dix Ans by Louis Blanc: “He owned Louis Blanc's _Histoire de Dix Ans_, all but the first volume, which he had never had”
Histoire des Girondins by Alphonse de Lamartine: “which he had never had, Lamartine's _Les Girondins_, _The Mysteries of Paris_ and _The Wandering Jew_, by Eugène Sue”
The Mysteries of Paris by Eugène Sue: “He had "The History of Ten Years" by Louis Blanc (except for the first volume), Lamartine's "The Girondins" in installments, "The Mysteries of Paris" and "The Wandering Jew" by Eugene Sue, and a quantity of booklets on philosophic and humanitarian subjects picked up from used book dealers.”
The Wandering Jew by Eugene Sue: “He had "The History of Ten Years" by Louis Blanc (except for the first volume), Lamartine's "The Girondins" in installments, "The Mysteries of Paris" and "The Wandering Jew" by Eugene Sue, and a quantity of booklets on philosophic and humanitarian subjects picked up from used book dealers.”
Books that mention L'Assommoir (1)
Floating Clouds by Hayashi Fumiko: “Tomioka thought he would stop at a secondhand shop and buy a novel to take home. What he wanted to read was Zola. He recalled that a mixed-race typist at the forestry office in Dalat had once lent him Zola's L'Assommoir. [auto-translated]”