Germinal
Zola, Émile [1840-1902.]
Germinal - London Penguin Books 2004 - xlv, 546 pages ; 20 cm - Penguin classics .
Original language French.
Émile Zola's Germinal is a brutal depiction of the poverty and wretchedness of a mining community in northern France. Étienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young man with a dangerous temper. Compelled to take a back-breaking job at Le Voreux mine when he cannot get other work, he discovers that his fellow miners are ill, hungry and in debt, unable to feed and clothe their families. When conditions in the mining community deteriorate even further, Lantier finds himself leading a strike that could mean starvation or salvation for all."
0140447423
Labor disputes--Fiction
Strikes and lockouts--Fiction
Coal miners--Fiction
843.8
Germinal - London Penguin Books 2004 - xlv, 546 pages ; 20 cm - Penguin classics .
Original language French.
Émile Zola's Germinal is a brutal depiction of the poverty and wretchedness of a mining community in northern France. Étienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young man with a dangerous temper. Compelled to take a back-breaking job at Le Voreux mine when he cannot get other work, he discovers that his fellow miners are ill, hungry and in debt, unable to feed and clothe their families. When conditions in the mining community deteriorate even further, Lantier finds himself leading a strike that could mean starvation or salvation for all."
0140447423
Labor disputes--Fiction
Strikes and lockouts--Fiction
Coal miners--Fiction
843.8