Germinal by Émile Zola

272 pages first pub 1885 (editions)

fiction classics literary emotional reflective sad slow-paced
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The novel's central character is tienne Lantier, previously seen in L'Assommoir (1877), a young migrant worker who arrives at the forbidding coalmining town of Montsou in the bleak far north of France to earn a living as a miner. Sacked from his ...

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