Germinal (Oxford World's Classics)

Best Works of Literature (Since 1000 AD) (122 items)
list by Lucas M.

Books read in 2004 (43 items)
list by Candied Elise

good readings (23 items)
list by bookworm fellow

This is the story about a city of the 19th century inhabited by miners. Zola describes very well the reality of the working class during the industrial revolution, with all details: the hungry, the disease, the poverty, the dust, the pollution, the shit, the dirtiness, the young girls getting pregnant before menstruating by the first time, the children working in the mines, covered by the black du... read more