Book · 1885 · Fiction

Germinal

Name: Germinal
Author: Emile Zola

Penguin Books (Penguin Random House) · 546 pages

★ 7.3 editorial score

Etienne Lantier takes work in a French coal pit and talks the starving miners into striking. Zola went down a real mine to write this, and you feel the rock overhead.

Genre

Philosophical fiction

Medium

Novel

Subject

Labor movement Industrial Revolution Working class

Setting

France

Time

1885Depicts 1860s

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