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Subject(s)

• Strikes and lockouts—Fiction [Browse]
• Coal mines and mining—Fiction [Browse]
• Coal miners—Fiction [Browse]
• Labor disputes—Fiction [Browse]
• Literature—Translations into English [Browse]
• France—Fiction [Browse]

Related name

• Pearson, Roger [Browse]

Related work(s)

Zola, Émile, 1840-1902. Germinal [Browse]

Series

Penguin classics. [More in this series]

Summary note

Etienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young man with a dangerous temper. Forced to take a back-breaking job at Le Voreux mine when he cannot get other work, he discovers that his fellow miners are ill, hungry, and in debt, unable to feed and clothe their families. When conditions in the mining community deteriorate even further, Lantier finds himself leading a strike that could mean starvation or salvation for all.

Notes

• Translated from the French.
• Originally published 1885.

Bibliographic references

• Includes bibliographical references ([xli]-xliii).
• Filmography: p. xliii.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

ISBN

0140447423 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2004445217

OCLC

53389035

RCP

H - S

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