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The Dram Shop is one of Émile Zola's most powerful works, portraying the harsh realities of working-class life in nineteenth-century Paris. Gervaise, a resilient young laundress, dreams of stability and dignity for her family, yet poverty, alcoholism, and misfortune relentlessly crush her hopes. Zola depicts with heartbreaking clarity the weight of social injustice and the fragile nature of human aspirations. In this landmark naturalist novel, Zola brings to life the voices, gestures, and struggles of the common people with documentary precision. Gervaise's rise and fall reveal the violence of fate and the near-impossible fight against inherited misery. Her story is both intimate and universal, a cry for compassion and understanding. A defining work of the Rougon-Macquart cycle, The Dram Shop remains emotionally devastating and artistically brilliant. It stands as one of literature's most profound examinations of hardship, endurance, and the corrosive force of despair.

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