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Item Details
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GERMINAL
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| By: |
Emile Zola, David Baguley (Editor) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£5.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0460875817 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780460875813 |
| Publisher: |
ORION PUBLISHING CO |
| Pub. date: |
6 May, 1996 |
| Pages: |
432 |
| Translated from: |
French |
| Description: |
Zola was the leading figure in the French school of Naturalistic fiction and "Germinal" is the compelling portrait of life in a mining community. This study edition contains both the text and a commentary upon it. |
| Synopsis: |
Written by Zola(1840-1902),the leading figure in the French school of Naturalistic fiction,GERMINAL (1885) is the compelling portrait of life in a mining community.The title of the novel refers back to a turbulent period of history,an era of violent change and expected renewal,and the novel itself is the thirteenth ofa twenty-volume series known as 'Rougon-Macquart'series after the names of rhe main branches,one legitimate,the othe illegitimate,of a single family.Gervaise Macquart,whose unhappy tale is told in L'ASSOMMOIR,is the mother of the hero in GERMINAL,Etienne.Etienne is a political figure as well as a compelling psychological study.Through him Zola examines the problems of industrial strife and traces the growing influence of socialism and anarchism. |
| Illustrations: |
notes, chronology, g |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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