L’Assommoir - Émile Zola torrent

Category: Classic, Literature
Language: English
Keywords: Les Rougon-Macquart Naxos

Written by Émile Zola
Read by Leighton Pugh
Format: MP3
Bitrate: Mixed
Unabridged

Brutal, gripping, and heart-wrenching, L’Assommoir (also known as The Drinking Den, The Dram Shop, or The Gin Palace) chronicles the tragic downward spiral of Gervaise Macquart, a good-natured and hardworking laundress who slides into alcoholism and despair.

After her lover abandons her and their two children, Gervaise marries a tin worker, Coupeau, who helps her rebuild her life. She starts her own business, and the two have a daughter, Anna (the protagonist of Zola’s later novel Nana). But their happiness is short-lived as a freak accident leaves Coupeau seriously injured, beginning the family’s fall into alcohol, desperation, and violence.

Disturbingly realistic, L’Assommoir is a vivid portrayal of life in late 19th-century Paris.

June 19 2019
15 hrs and 46 mins