Germinal (novel)
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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
First edition, 1885
The title page of the 1885 French edition
Émile Zola
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Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of t
Germinal (novel)
…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…
Zola in 1898
Zola early in his career, c. 1865.
Paul Cézanne, Paul Alexis Reading to Émile Zola, 1869–1870, São Paulo Museum of Art
Captioned "French Realism", caricature of Zola in the London magazine Vanity Fair, 1880