L'Assommoir, Book Seven of Rougon-Macquart Cycle

About this film

LibriVox recording of L'Assommoir, Book Seven of Rougon-Macquart Cycle by Émile Zola. (Translated by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly.) Read in English by Mark Leder. Gervaise Macquart runs away to Paris with Lantier, to work as a washerwoman. Lantier abandons her and their two sons. She then marries the roofer Coupeau, and has a daughter, nicknamed Nana. She opens her own laundry; then everything goes downhill, as both Gervaise and Coupeau succumb to alcoholism. - Summary by Mark Leder For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit librivox.org . M4B Audiobook 01-20 (245MB) M4B Audiobook 21-41 (246 MB)

Directors & creators

Émile Zola

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;dark; grim; realistic; pessimistic; gritty

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