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Germinal (Hardcover)
Emile Zola; Translated by Havelock Ellis
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1924. With an essay by Francis Gribble. Zola, French writer, critic
and leader of the naturalist school. Zola's work often portray
groups of humans in the grip of circumstances beyond their control,
often destined to be destroyed in monumental catastrophes. His
masterpiece Germinal was an eloquent protest against the inhuman
working conditions common in late Nineteenth-Century European
factories and mines. In the story, Etienne Lantier is an
out-of-work railway worker who by sheer luck has secured a job in
the coal mine called Le Voreux (a name suggesting a voracious beast
which consumes workers wholesale). As a newcomer he attempts
improvement through worker resistance, including a strike with
unforeseen and tragic consequences. See other titles by this author
available from Kessinger Publishing.
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