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The drinking den

By: Zola, Emile

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Part of the Penguin classics series
Penguin Classics
014044954X / 9780140449549
Paperback
843.8
29/04/2004
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England
Foreign
20 cm xxxiii, 440 p.
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Reprint. This translation originally published: 2000.

Set in the taverns of Paris, this is perhaps the first classical tragedy of working-class people living in the slums of a city. "The Drinking Den" (1877) is part of the "Rougon-Macquart" series, a naturalistic history of two branches of a family traced through several generations.

Zola's work was influenced by contemporary theories of heredity and experimental science, and the behaviour of the two families is shown to be conditioned by environment and inherited characteristics, chiefly drunkenness and mental instability.

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FC Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FYT Fiction in translation

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