{"product_id":"germinal-hardcover","title":"Germinal - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEmile Zola\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe novel's central character is  tienne Lantier, previously seen in L'Assommoir (1877), a young migrant worker who arrives at the forbidding coalmining town of Montsou in the bleak far north of France to earn a living as a miner. Sacked from his previous job on the railways for assaulting a superior - he befriends the veteran miner Maheu, who finds him somewhere to stay and gets him a job pushing the carts down the pit.  tienne is portrayed as a hard-working idealist but also a na ve youth;.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrench novelist, playwright, and journalist Emile Zola (1840-1902) was a leading proponent of naturalism in fiction, as expressed in his monumental 20-novel series \u003ci\u003eLes Rougon-Macquart.\u003c\/i\u003e Nominated for the first and second Nobel Prizes in Literature, Zola also played a major role in the exoneration of the falsely accused officer at the center of the Dreyfus Affair; the headline of his open letter to the President of France, \u003ci\u003eJ'accuse...!\u003c\/i\u003e, remains an international watchword for speaking truth to power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.75 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 03, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42716320137279,"sku":"9781515432982","price":61.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/53786f9dc23c89fb74248a787417e97c.webp?v=1765074505","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/germinal-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}