Other Fiction Zola, Emile: Germinal [Havelock Ellis Translation] , v.1, 30 July 2008.

[Patricia]

Emile Zola (1840–1902)
Germinal (1885)
Translated by Havelock Ellis (1894)


A tale of love, violence, despair and terrorism in the mining community of Montsou in Northern France.

Germinal was the month in the French Revolutionary calendar when Spring began. But underground, in Montsou the miners are oppressed and their situation grows progressively worse. Are the seeds of revolution growing?

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