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Often considered Zola's masterpiece and one of the most significant novels in the French tradition, the novel – an uncompromisingly harsh and realistic story of a coalminers' strike in northern France in the 1860s – has been published and translated in over one hundred countries.
When Emile Zola passed away in 1902, a throng of several thousand workers lined the streets, chanting “Germinal, Germinal”, with their heads held high up, eyes brimming with emotion, bidding farewell to their great hero- the defender of justice and equality.
Feb 8, 2018 · So, in the little Cornish cottage over the sea we then occupied, the evenings of the early months of 1894 were spent over Germinal, I translating aloud, and she with swift efficient untiring pen following, now and then bettering my English dialogue with her pungent wit.
Complete summary of Émile Zola's Germinal. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Germinal.
Nov 10, 2010 · Germinal. by. Zola, Emile, 1840-1902. Publication date. 1885. Publisher. Chicago : Belford, Clarke. Collection.
Feb 8, 2018 · Germinal Credits: Dagny and Marc D’Hooghe Language: English: LoC Class: PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese: Subject: Coal miners -- Fiction Subject: Coal mines and mining -- Fiction Subject: Political fiction Subject: Strikes and lockouts -- Fiction Subject: Labor disputes -- Fiction Subject
Germinal, written by French author Émile Zola, was originally published as a serial novel from November 1884 until February 1885. It was published fully in March 1885. The novel is the 13th of 20 in Zola’s Les Rougon-Macquart series, which focuses on the influence of heredity in two branches of a family during the Second French Empire.
