ISBN 9780140440454 | 0140440453 Textbooks - "Germinal Penguin Classics" by Emile Emile Zola Zola Emile Tancock Leonard translator Emile Zola TranslatorLeonard Tancock IntroductionLeonard Tancock Emile Tancock Leonard W Translator and Tancock Leonard W Adapted by

Authors: Emile - Emile Zola - Zola - Emile // Tancock - Leonard (translator) - Emile Zola; Translat…
ISBN 10: 0140440453
ISBN 13: 9780140440454
Release: November 30, 1954
Format: Paperback (512 pages)
List Price: $8.95
More Details

List Price: $8.95

Tags: Literature & Fiction, Contemporary,

Book Description:
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 symbolize the call for freedom from oppression so forcefully that the crowd which gathered at his State funeral chanted 'Germinal! Germinal!'. 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 - a strike which becomes a losing battle against starvation, repression, and sabotage. Yet despite the violence and disillusion which rock the mining community to its foundations, Lantier retains his belief in the ultimate germination of a new society, leading to a better world. Germinal is a dramatic novel of working life, sexual desire, and everyday relationships, but it is also a complex novel of ideas, given fresh vigour and power in this new translation.

Filter By Condition

Used
New
Rental
eBooks
International
Local Options

Search By Location

Rental Term

Show Prices

Apply Coupons
Apply Sales Tax (estimate)

Getting Prices, Please Wait

Loading…

Seller	Condition	Price	Shipping	Total (inc. est. tax)

Germinal (Penguin Classics)