Germinal / Émile Zola ; translated with an introduction and notes by Roger Pearson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zola, Émile, 1840-1902.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Pearson, Roger.

Series:

Penguin classics

Standardized Title:

Germinal. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Mineral industries--France, Northern--Fiction.

Mineral industries.

Social conditions.

France, Northern--Social conditions--Fiction.

France, Northern.

Northern France.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xlv, 546 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Penguin Books, 2004.

Summary:

The thirteenth novel in Emile Zola's great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at the exploitation of the many by the few, but also shows humanity's capacity for compassion and hope. Etienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young man with a dangerous temper. Forced 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.

Notes:

Translated from the French.

Includes bibliographical references ([xli]-xliii) and filmography (page xliii).

ISBN:

0140447423

OCLC:

53389035