Germinal is the thirteenth novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. Often considered Zola's masterpiece and one of the most ...

A coal mining town's workers are exploited by the mine's owner. One day, they decide to go on strike, and the authorities repress them.

The “Germinal” novel was published in 1885 and is considered the main work of Emile Zola. It describes the inhumane conditions in the mines of the French coal ...

Zola's Germinal is a melodramatic narrative of laborers descending from a life barely touched by civilization to a Dantesque world of coal, fumes and fire.

1. a : being in the earliest stage of development b : creative, productive 2. of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a germ cell or early embryo.

Germinal is a 1993 French epic film based on the 1885 novel by Émile Zola. It was directed by Claude Berri, and stars Gérard Depardieu, Miou-Miou and Renaud ...

16 aug 2024 · Émile Zola's Germinal (1885), a novel about the coal-mining region of France, greatly impressed van Gogh, and sociological criticism is implicit ...

“Coal mines have become rare, but the miners of Germinal are immortal. This new edition of the novel, with a translation by Raymond MacKenzie, is an exquisite ...

23 sep 2021 · This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no ...