Germinal by Émile Zola
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"Germinal" by Émile Zola is a novel written between 1884 and 1885. Set in a northern French coal mining town during the 1860s, it follows young migrant worker Étienne Lantier as he arrives seeking work in the forbidding pits of Montsou. As brutal working conditions and desperate poverty push the miners toward breaking point, Étienne becomes an unlikely leader of a strike movement. This uncompromisingly harsh and realistic story explores the workers'
struggle for survival, explosive riots, and personal entanglements against a backdrop of severe oppression. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Zola, Émile, 1840-1902 |
|---|---|
| Translator | Ellis, Havelock, 1859-1939 |
| Title | Germinal |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germinal_(novel) |
| Credits | Dagny and Marc D’Hooghe |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 78.9 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Coal miners -- Fiction |
| Subject | Coal mines and mining -- Fiction |
| Subject | Political fiction |
| Subject | Strikes and lockouts -- Fiction |
| Subject | Labor disputes -- Fiction |
| Subject | France, Northern -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 56528 |
| Release Date | Feb 8, 2018 |
| Last Update | Sep 23, 2021 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1371 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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