Germinal
by Emile Zola
Publisher: ManyBooks 1885
ISBN/ASIN: B001EQ5V4O
Number of pages: 390
Description:
Zola's masterpiece of working life and everyday relationships; it exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s. Germinal is also a complex novel of ideas, given fresh vigor and power in this new translation.
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