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The thirteenth novel in Émile Zola?s great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at the exploitation of the many by the few, but also shows humanity?s capacity for compassion and hope. Etienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young man with a... read more
First Sentence
ON a pitch-black, starless night, a solitary man was trudging along the main road from Marchiennes to Montsou, ten kilometres of cobblestones running straight as a die across the bare plain between fields of beet.
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- Emile Zola (Author)
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