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Germinal — Zola’s novel of a miners’ strike, published in 1885
The thirteenth novel of the Rougon-Macquart cycle: a strike in a mining village of the North, hunger, gunfire and the flooding of the pit. Serialised in Gil Blas, then published in volume, it is the book that made its author, in workers’ eyes, one of their own. (Editorial synthesis)
Germinal was published in 1885. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Germinal was published in Paris. (source: BnF)
Recorded author of Germinal: Émile Zola.
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