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  • Published: 29 November 1991
  • ISBN: 9781857150247
  • Imprint: Everyman
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 502
  • RRP: $39.99
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Germinal





New translation by Roger Pearson of the novel considered to be Zola's masterpiece

Zola's masterpiece of working life, Germinal (1885), exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s. By Zola's death in 1902 it had come to symbolise the call for freedom from oppression so forcefully that the crowd which gathered at his State funeral chanted 'Germinal! Germinal

  • Published: 29 November 1991
  • ISBN: 9781857150247
  • Imprint: Everyman
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 502
  • RRP: $39.99
Categories:

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About the author

Emile Zola

Émile Zola (1840-1902) was the leading figure in the French school of naturalistic fiction. His principal work, Les Rougon-Macquart, is a panorama of mid-19th century French life, in a cycle of 20 novels which Zola wrote over a period of 22 years.

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