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Often considered Zola's masterpiece and one of the most significant novels in the French tradition, the novel – an uncompromisingly harsh and realistic story of a coalminers' strike in northern France in the 1860s – has been published and translated in over one hundred countries.
Nov 10, 2010 · Germinal. by. Zola, Emile, 1840-1902. Publication date. 1885. Publisher. Chicago : Belford, Clarke. Collection.
Émile Zola, Roger Pearson (Translator) 4.19. 38,507 ratings2,207 reviews. The thirteenth novel in Émile 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.
Why is Zola's novel called Germinal? What is "germinating"? Which mine does Monsieur Hennebeau own in Germinal by Émile Zola? Compare Catherine and Cécile's lives in Germinal by Émile Zola.
Considered one of Zola’s best novels, Germinal takes its name from a spring month in the French Republican Calendar. Written in the naturalist tradition, the book studies how people are the product of both inner forces and their environments.
Oct 22, 2019 · 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!
Feb 8, 2018 · Yet Germinal occupies a place among Zola's works which is constantly becoming more assured, so that to some critics it even begins to seem the only book of his that in the end may survive. In his own time, as we know, the accredited critics of the day could find no condemnation severe enough for Zola.
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May 25, 2004 · Germinal. Emile Zola. Penguin, May 25, 2004 - Fiction - 592 pages. The thirteenth novel in Émile Zola’s great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at the exploitation of the...
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 symbolise the call for freedom from oppression so forcefully that the crowd which gathered at his State funeral chanted 'Germinal! Germinal!'.
