![]() He spent months researching the conditions of real-life miners, even going so far as pose as a government official so that he could descend into a mine personally. Zolaâs depiction of the mining town is shockingly bleak in its detail. When the owners of the mine conspire to lower the minersâ wages, Ãtienne seizes the opportunity and convinces the town to strike. Ãtienne quickly befriends the locals as he embraces his new life in the mines, but the abject poverty of the miners shocks him, and he soon begins reading about socialism. And the only industry around is mining coal. He arrives in Montsou, a coal mining town in the north of France, to begin a new life in a different industry. The book follows Ãtienne Lantier, a young man whose career as a railway worker is abruptly cut short after he attacks a superior. ![]() Germinal, named after the spring month in the French Republican Calendar, is often considered to be Zolaâs masterpiece. ![]() Standard Ebooksġ79,796 words (10 hours 54 minutes) with a reading ease of 70.43 (fairly easy) Translated by Havelock Ellis - Free ebook download - Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover. ![]()
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