The pit, the company, the hunger, and the violence when it comes. Zola went down a mine at Anzin and talked to the men; the crowd scenes are the best in nineteenth-century fiction, and at his funeral a delegation of miners followed the coffin chanting "Germinal!".
Englisch
Thérèse Raquin
Germinal
His Masterpiece : A Painter Defeated by His Own Canvas
Money : L'Argent
Fruitfulness : A Family Against a Barren Paris
Rome : A Priest's Manuscript on the Index
The Downfall : The French Army in the War of 1870
His Excellency : A Minister of the Second Empire
The Rush for the Spoil : Speculation in Haussmann's Paris
Paris : A Brother Making Bombs in a Workshop
The Ladies' Paradise : A Great Paris Store Eating Its Street