Germinal
by Émile Zola
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The thirteenth novel in Emile 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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Fiction, Strikes and lockouts, Coal miners, Labor disputes, Coal mines and mining, Industrial relations, Miners, Literary collections, Work, Coal mining, Mineral industries, Social conditions, Working class, Literature, Classic Literature, Mineurs, France, Mines, Grèves et lock-out, Translations into Yiddish, French literature, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), France, fiction, Fiction, political, Romance literature, Coal mines and mining--fiction, Strikes and lockouts--fiction, Labor disputes--fiction, Coal miners--fiction, Pq2504 .a33 2008, 843.8, Translations into EnglishPlaces
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Germinal: drame inédit en 5 actes et 12 tableaux, précédé du scénario de la pièce, aussi inédit
1989, Editions du Préambule
in French
2891330943 9782891330947
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Germinal (Everyman Paperback Classics)
Publish date unknown, Tuttle Publishing
Paperback
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0460875817 9780460875813
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