Germinal

Zola's masterpiece of working life, "Germinal" (1885), exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s. The central figure, Etienne Lantier, is an outsider who enters the community and eventually leads his fellow-miners in a strike protesting against pay-cuts.

Product details

• Authors: Emile Zola
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.11.2000
• EAN: 9780192837028
• ISBN: 978-0-19-283702-8
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 196 mm x 25 mm
• Series: World's classics; World's classics; World's classics