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Germinal by Emile Zola (Paperback, 1969)
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Title: Germinal (Penguin Classics) Item Condition: used item in a good condition. Author: Émile Zola ISBN 10: 0140440453. Publisher: Penguin ISBN 13: 9780140440454.
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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 gathered at his State funeral chanted 'Germinal! Germinal!'. The central figure, Etienne Lantier, is an outsider who enters the community and eventually leads his fellow-miners in a strike protesting against pay-cuts - a strike which becomes a losing battle against starvation, repression, and sabotage. Yet despite the violence and disillusion which rock the mining community to its foundations, Lantier retains his belief in the ultimate germination of a new society, leading to a better world. Germinal is a dramatic novel of working life, sexual desire, and everyday relationships, but it is also a complex novel of ideas, given fresh vigour and power in this new translation.Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Books LTD
ISBN-139780140440454
eBay Product ID (ePID)90605412
Product Key Features
Book TitleGerminal
AuthorEmile Zola
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicBooks
Publication Year1969
Number of Pages512 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height198mm
Item Width128mm
Item Weight306g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorEmile Zola
Series TitleClassics
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 22 Apr, 2020
Germinal book
Quality ok for the age of the book. Not good but ok.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 14 Oct, 2020
Fantastic book
Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 13 Jun, 2024
Great stuff.
Great stuff.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 10 May, 2016
Emile Zola "Germinal"
Best book I've read for ages. Very powerful description of the lives and political and social circumstances of people involved in the mining communities of late 19th century, not only in northern France but applicable also to Britain.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
