Germinal by Émile Zola

498 pages first pub 1885 (editions)

fiction classics literary emotional reflective sad slow-paced
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Zola's masterpiece of working life, Germinal (1885), exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s. By Zola's death in 1902 it had come to symbolize the call for freedom from oppression so forcefully that the crowd which...

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