http://www.vigobooks.com Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 06 Apr 2014 16:01:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 http://www.vigobooks.com/classics/world-literature/germinal/ http://www.vigobooks.com/classics/world-literature/germinal/#comments Sat, 26 May 2012 10:59:08 +0000 http://www.vigobooks.com/?p=3682 Émile Zola’s unflinching masterpiece tells the story of Étienne Lantier, a young man who moves to a bleak French mining town in search of work. But the harsh reality causes him to turn to socialist cause and as the dire conditions worsen strikes and violence erupt…

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