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Germinal (Oxford World's Classics)
by Emile Zola
from Oxford University Press, USA

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

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• superb political and social analysis of working class
  although 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 labor... more info

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  How 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 both... more info

• 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 the maw... more info

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