by Émile Zola · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140440454
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«Germinal» is the novel by Émile Zola published by Penguin Classics in paperback (512 pages, in English).
Étienne Lantier, a young unemployed railway worker, enters the Le Voreux mine in northern France and discovers the misery and exploitation suffered by the miners. When conditions worsen, he becomes the leader of a strike that could mean salvation or ruin for the community.
It is the thirteenth instalment of Émile Zola's Les Rougon-Macquart series, in an English translation by Leonard Tancock.
For readers of classic fiction interested in nineteenth-century social protest narrative.
Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in the political liberalization of France and in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus, which is encapsulated in his renowned newspaper opinion headlined J'Accuse...! Zola was nominated for the first and second Nobel Prizes in Literature in 1901 and 1902.
