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Germinal
- Author
- Émile Zola
- Narrator
- Josh Dylan
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 23 April 2020
- Run Time
- 21 hours 14 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Rating
- 5.0 (1 review)
What to expect
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Considered by André Gide to be one of the ten greatest novels in the French language, Germinal is a brutal depiction of the poverty and wretchedness of a mining community in northern France under the second empire. At the centre of the novel is Etienne Lantier, a handsome 21 year-old mechanic, intelligent but with little education and a dangerous predisposition to murderous, alcoholic rage. Germinal tells the parallel story of Etienne's refusal to accept what he appears destined to become, and of the miners' difficult decision to strike in order to fight for a better standard of life.
(c) 1885, Émile Zola (P) 2019 Penguin Audio
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Details
- Author
- Émile Zola
- Narrator
- Josh Dylan
- Duration
- 21 hours 14 minutes
- Release Date
- 23 April 2020
- ISBN
- 9780241425510
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Classic fiction: literary and general, Fiction in translation
- Rating
- 5.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin. Considered by André Gide to be one of the ten greatest novels in the French language, Germinal is a brutal depiction of the poverty and wretchedness of a mining community in northern France under the second empire. At the centre of the novel is Etienne Lantier, a handsome 21 year-old mechanic, intelligent but with little education and a dangerous predisposition to murderous, alcoholic rage. Germinal tells the parallel story of Etienne's refusal to accept what he appears destined to become, and of the miners' difficult decision to strike in order to fight for a better standard of life.(c) 1885, Émile Zola (P) 2019 Penguin Audio
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