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- Author
- Émile Zola
- First published
- 1885
- Editions
- 147
- Subjects
- Fiction, Strikes and lockouts, Coal miners, Labor disputes, Coal mines and mining, Industrial relations, Miners, Literary collections
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Key facts
- Author
- Émile Zola
- Translator
- Havelock Ellis (1894), Peter Collier (1993), Roger Pearson (2004), Raymond N. MacKenzie (2011)
- Language
- French
- Series
- Les Rougon-Macquart
- Genre
- Novel
- Publisher
- G. Charpentier
- Publication place
- France
- Media type
- Print ( hardback and paperback )
- Pages
- 592 (paperback)
- Preceded by
- The Beast Within
- Followed by
- Nana
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Wikidata facts
- Read free · Project Gutenberg
- #56528
- Instance of
- literary work
- Named after
- Germinal
- Author
- Émile Zola
- Genre
- social novel
- Country of origin
- France
- Series
- Les Rougon-Macquart
- Followed by
- L'Œuvre
- Follows
- La Joie de vivre
- Movement
- literary realism
- Narrative location
- northern French coal mining region
- Image
- Germinal first edition cover.jpg
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- Commons category
- Germinal (roman)
- title
- Germinal
- language of work or name
- French
- copyright status
- public domain
- place of publication
- France
- form of creative work
- novel
- time period
- modernism
- inception
- 1885-00-00
- described by source
- New International Encyclopedia
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Encyclopedic overview
Germinal, by Émile Zola, in French. Part I - Chapter 1. LibriVox recording by Françoise. Germinal is the thirteenth novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. Often considered Zola's masterpiece and one of the most significant novels in the French tradition, the novel – an uncompromisingly harsh and realistic story of a coalminers' strike in northern France in the 1860s – has been published and translated in over one hundred countries. It has also inspired five film adaptations and two television productions.
Germinal was written between April 1884 and January 1885. It was first serialized between November 1884 and February 1885 in the periodical Gil Blas, then in March 1885 published as a book.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Germinal” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.