Germinal

Émile Zola · 1885 CE · Novel · French · Victorian

Étienne Lantier arrives at a northern French coal pit with nothing and takes work at the face, among families who have dug there for generations on wages that keep falling. A cut in pay brings a strike, and the strike brings hunger, soldiers and the company's patience. The earth itself devouring its workers.

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Lineage

• influenced by ↑ Madame Bovary
  Gustave Flaubert · 1857 CE · Novel
• influenced by ↑ The Black Sheep
  Honoré de Balzac · 1842 CE · Novel
• continues ↑ L'Assommoir
  Émile Zola · 1877 CE · Novel
• ↓ The Jungle
  Upton Sinclair · 1906 CE · Novel — influenced by this

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