The Drinking Den By Émile Zola, Robin Buss (Translator)

The Drinking Den By Émile Zola, Robin Buss (Translator)Previously published as L'assommoir (The Dram Shop), Emile Zola's The Drinking Den is an unflinching study of a desperate young woman struggling against the ravages of vice. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the French with an introduction by Robin Buss. Abandoned by her lover and left to bring up their two children alone, Gervaise Macquart has to fight to earn an honest living. When she accepts the marriage proposal of Monsieur

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Dorian becomes jealous of it and wishes that the portrait bear the scars of his passing youth and age

manage pressure and achieve very specific outcomes while managing their wellbeing

Like physical qualities

her father regales her with old folktales of the Jade Dragon and the Old Man on the Moon

wild imagination

is a book of the writings from the Dutch-language diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands

With a wicked wink to Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None

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an encampment at the centre of a bizarre maze

spreadeagled and handcuffed to the bedstead while he'd loomed and drooled over her

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