- Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS
- Imprint: Everyman
- ISBN: 9781857150247
- Length: 502 pages
- Dimensions: 211mm x 30mm x 135mm
- Weight: 593g
- Price: £12.99
Germinal
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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
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