L'Assommoir (The Dram Shop)
Contributors: Robin Buss (Translator)
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: April 3, 2001
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780140447538
First sentence: Gervaise had waited for Lantier until two o'clock in the morning; then, shivering all over, because she had been standing in her shift in the cold air from the window, she slumped down across the bed, in a fever, her cheeks wet with tears.
Notes: Penguin Classics