Germinal (Penguin Classics) Paperback - 2004
by Émile Zola
The thirteenth novel in Émile Zola's great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at the exploitation of the many by the few, but also shows humanity's capacity for compassion and hope.
Etienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young man with a dangerous temper. Forced to take a back-breaking job at Le Voreux mine when he cannot get other work, he discovers that his fellow miners are ill, hungry, and in debt, unable to feed and clothe their families. When conditions in the mining community deteriorate even further, Lantier finds himself leading a strike that could mean starvation or salvation for all.
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The thirteenth novel in Émile Zola’s great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at the exploitation of the many by the few, but also shows humanity’s capacity for compassion and hope.
Etienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young man with a dangerous temper. Forced to take a back-breaking job at Le Voreux mine when he cannot get other work, he discovers that his fellow miners are ill, hungry, and in debt, unable to feed and clothe their families. When conditions in the mining community deteriorate even further, Lantier finds himself leading a strike that could mean starvation or salvation for all.
- New translation
- Includes introduction, suggestions for further reading, filmography, chronology, explanatory notes, and glossary
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- Title Germinal (Penguin Classics)
- Author Émile Zola
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 592
- Language EN
- Publisher Penguin Classics, New York, New York
- Date May 25, 2004
- Features Bibliography, Glossary
- ISBN 9780140447422
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Chronological Period: 1851-1899
- Cultural Region: French
- Cultural Region: Western Europe
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