TY - BOOK AU - Zola,Émile TI - Germinal AV - PQ PY - 2004/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Coal miners -- Fiction KW - Coal mines and mining -- Fiction KW - Political fiction KW - Strikes and lockouts -- Fiction KW - Labor disputes -- Fiction KW - France, Northern -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germinal_(novel) https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germinal_(roman); Release date is 2004-05-01; This eBook was produced by Carlo Traverso; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Germinal" by Émile Zola is a novel published in 1885. It follows Étienne Lantier, a young unemployed worker who finds a job in the coal mines of northern France, where he discovers brutal working conditions. Living among a mining family, he witnesses their suffering and poverty. When the mining company cuts wages, Étienne leads the miners in a desperate strike against injustice. The struggle escalates into violence and tragedy, testing the workers' resolve and their dreams of a more equal society. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5711 ER -