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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 843.8 EAN: 9780140447422 ISBN: 0140447423 Label: Penguin Classics Manufacturer: Penguin Classics Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 592 Publication Date: May 25, 2004 Publisher: Penguin Classics Release Date: May 25, 2004 Studio: Penguin Classics Editorial Review: Product Description: The thirteenth novel in Émile Zolas great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at the exploitation of the many by the few, but also shows humanitys capacity for compassion and hope. Etienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young man with a dangerous temper. Forced to take a back-breaking job at Le Voreux mine when he cannot get other work, he discovers that his fellow miners are ill, hungry, and in debt, unable to feed and clothe their families. When conditions in the mining community deteriorate even further, Lantier finds himself leading a strike that could mean starvation or salvation for all. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Book SalesThe book came in GREAT condition and was shipped at the speed of light! I'll gladly buy here again. Rating: - superb political and social analysis of working classalthough slightly dated because of the progress that labor has made in most of the world, zola does a superb job of analyzing the problem from the workers perspective. By looking at generations of coal miners in the same family, he is able to reflect the changes each generation has gone through and where they appear to be going in the future. incorporated into this, is a comparison of the different theories of labor revolt from evolutionary to revolutionary to anarchy. the personal struggles of the ... Read More Rating: - Zola FanHow can one like a bleak story about the haves and have nots in the mining industry in France so much? Emile Zola depicts the story with such precision and detail that the story strikes one with gut wrenching impact. At their best the lives of the miners lack in comforts, privacy, food, sanitation and health care. With strikes and disasters, these lives break like brittle twigs, and death, drama and tragedy become the norm. I have read one other Zola book of a completely different subject matter, but ... Read More Rating: - Utterly fantastic....Others have already been more eloquent in their descriptions of this novel than I have time to transcribe here from my neural attic. I happened across this book at a church fair and had (somehow) heard of the name Zola. I have frequently traveled to France and after brief scan of some of the pages, noting the French names, decided to shell over the 50 cents for it. I started reading and was impressed by the deep descriptive abilities Zola had at his disposal; describing Etienne's initial perusal of ... Read More Rating:  - Accurate: Captured the Spirit!This was my first read of Zola, an author who is FAR too unknown in the US. He captured, fully, the essence of a labor dispute. I've been around an industrial area my whole life, and have been through many strikes, plus have been the target of those who don't like you crossing their lines. Zola brought all this to life; he told it just as it really is. Incredible! |
