Budding

Author: (French) Zola
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Publish Date: 2002-06-01
Features: This book is one of the masterpieces of the late 19th-century French naturalist literary master émile Zola. It is originally a part of the large-scale series novel The Rougon-Macquart Family, which Zola called the "Second Empire" of France, depicting a natural and social history of a family. As the first novel in world literary history to positively portray industrial workers' strikes, The Germ presents the struggle between labor and capital in a capitalist society with an epic grandeur. It depicts the process of the coal miners' strike in a panoramic view, exposes the crimes of the bourgeoisie who amassed wealth through ruthless exploitation of the hardworking masses with appalling facts, and vividly records the early workers' movement.