Les Rougon-Macquart · book 13
Germinal
About this book
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.
Les Rougon-Macquart · 20 books
In publication order- 12 La Joie de vivre 1884
- 13 Germinal 1885 This book
- 14 L'Œuvre 1886
- 15 La Terre 1887
Subjects
- 843.8
- classic literature
- coal miners
- coal miners--fiction
- coal mines and mining
- coal mines and mining--fiction
- coal mining
- continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
- fiction
- fiction, political
- france
- france, fiction
- french literature
- grèves et lock-out
- industrial relations
- labor disputes
- labor disputes--fiction
- literary collections
- literature
- long now manual for civilization
- mineral industries
- miners
- mines
- mineurs
- pq2504 .a33 2008
- romance literature
- social conditions
- strikes and lockouts
- strikes and lockouts--fiction
- translations into english
- translations into yiddish
- work
- working class