In the canon
Germinal
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1885
- Originally in
- Originally in French
- Pages
- Pages 550
A migrant becomes a coal miner in northern France and leads a strike that starves the village and draws soldiers who open fire, ending in flood and defeat, though he leaves certain the next uprising is already germinating underground.
Over the open plain, beneath a starless sky as dark and thick as ink, a man walked alone along the highway from Marchiennes to Montsou,
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