{"product_id":"germinal-a-classic-novel-of-labor-class-and-revolt-hardcover","title":"Germinal: A Classic Novel of Labor, Class, and Revolt - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEmile Zola\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eÉmile Zola's \u003cem\u003eGerminal\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the great nineteenth-century novels of labour, poverty, class conflict, and industrial life.\u003c\/strong\u003e Set among the coal miners of northern France, the novel follows Étienne Lantier as he enters the brutal world of the pits, encounters the Maheu family, and becomes drawn into the mounting anger of a workforce pushed beyond endurance. Hunger, danger, exhausted bodies, fragile loyalties, and the pressure of social injustice combine in a story that is at once intimate, political, and immense in scale.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1885 as part of Zola's great Rougon-Macquart cycle, \u003cem\u003eGerminal\u003c\/em\u003e stands as a defining work of French naturalism and European realist fiction. Zola writes with unsparing attention to material conditions: wages, food, housing, machinery, debt, family life, and the human cost of industrial power. Yet the novel is never merely documentary. Its emotional force comes from the lives caught inside those systems-men and women whose private hopes are tested by hunger, violence, desire, and revolt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA landmark of classic French literature, \u003cem\u003eGerminal\u003c\/em\u003e remains essential reading for anyone interested in nineteenth-century fiction, social protest novels, labour history, naturalist literature, and the development of the modern political novel. Its vision of industrial capitalism and working-class struggle continues to speak with unusual power, not because it simplifies conflict, but because it renders it in human, bodily, and unforgettable terms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrench novelist, playwright, and journalist Emile Zola (1840-1902) was a leading proponent of naturalism in fiction, as expressed in his monumental 20-novel series \u003ci\u003eLes Rougon-Macquart.\u003c\/i\u003e Nominated for the first and second Nobel Prizes in Literature, Zola also played a major role in the exoneration of the falsely accused officer at the center of the Dreyfus Affair; the headline of his open letter to the President of France, \u003ci\u003eJ'accuse...!\u003c\/i\u003e, remains an international watchword for speaking truth to power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.75 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 03, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50377917726957,"sku":"9781515432982","price":51.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/rHHs9zd0LN9781515432982.webp?v=1785620607","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/en-ca\/products\/germinal-a-classic-novel-of-labor-class-and-revolt-hardcover","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}