

L'Assommoir
The Drinking Den
Author: Emile Zola
Narrator: Leighton Pugh
Unabridged: 15 hr 45 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks
Published: 03/01/2019
Author: Emile Zola
Narrator: Leighton Pugh
Unabridged: 15 hr 45 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks
Published: 03/01/2019
Whenever I think I had a rough upbringing I read a book like this and realise I am a fluffed little pillow of good fortune. I was raised in a council tenement in a backwater semi-village in Central Scotland amid a backdrop of Protestant activism and spinster gossiping. But compared to Zola’s Paris i......more
Don't actually remember when I read this, it was sometime just after college. I had read Nana for a class and needed to follow it up. As I write this blurb I'm belatedly following up L'Assommoir with Germinal. You really can't lose with Zola. Unless you're one of his characters, in which case you'll......more