The thirteenth novel in Emile Zola's twenty-volume Les Rougon-Macquart series, published in 1885. Set among coal miners in northern France, it follows a bitter strike and its brutal suppression, and its unflinching naturalist portrayal of industrial poverty and labor conflict made it one of the most politically influential novels of nineteenth-century French literature. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Often considered Zola's masterpiece and one of the most significant novels in the French tradition, the novel – an uncompromisingly harsh and realistic story of a coalminers' strike in northern France in the 1860s – has been published and translated in over one hundred countries.
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Germinal is the thirteenth novel in Emile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart.
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Germinal is the thirteenth novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart.
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Germinal is the thirteenth novel in Emile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart.
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The thirteenth novel in Emile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart, published in 1885.
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