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Germinal (Penguin Classics)

Émile Zola

Considered by Andr 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, intell...

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Enver Hoxha's personal library contained many classic works of literature, including "Germinal" by Emile Zola.

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These books included the whole library of classics, the library of world literature including Dante and Shakespeare and Zola and Montesquieu and Russo and Diderot.

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Enver Hoxha's personal library contained many classic works of literature, including "Germinal" by Emile Zola.

"

These books included the whole library of classics, the library of world literature including Dante and Shakespeare and Zola and Montesquieu and Russo and Diderot.

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