Germinal

Germinal

By Émile Zola
Unabridged
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“[Germinal] made me realize that when books are considered ‘classics,’ most of the time they’re actually very readable and exciting.”

Daniel Radcliffe

Germinal is one of the most striking novels in the French tradition. Widely regarded as Zola’s masterpiece, the novel describes the working conditions of French coal miners in the 1860s in harsh and realistic terms—it is visceral, graphic, and unrelenting. Its strong socialist principles and vivid accounts of the miners’ strikes meant that the novel became a key symbol in the workers’ fight against oppression, with chants of “Germinal! Germinal!” resonating high above the author’s funeral.