Germinal / Emile Zola ; translated by Peter Collier ; with an introduction by Robert Lethbridge.
By: Zola, Emile.
Contributor(s): Collier, Peter
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Material type: 
BookSeries: World's classics.Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1993Description: xxxv, 538 p.ISBN: 0192827014.Subject(s): Coal mines and mining -- Fiction | Strikes and lockouts -- Fiction | Labor disputes -- Fiction | Coal miners -- Fiction | France -- FictionDDC classification: 843.8 ZOL | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 843.8 ZOL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00014414 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Zola's masterpiece of working life, Germinal (1885), exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s. By Zola's death in 1902 it had come to symbolize the call for freedom from oppression so forcefully that the crowd which gathered at his State funeral chanted "Germinal! Germinal!"
While it is a dramatic novel of working life and everyday relationships, Germinal is also a complex novel of ideas, given fresh vigor and power in this new translation. It is also the thirteenth book in the Rougon-Macquart cycle, which celebrates its centenary in October 1993 with a new film version of Germinal starring Gerard Depardieu.
Bibliography: (pages xxx-xxxi).
Germinal -- Explanatory Notes.
Translated from the French.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Peter Collier is an author who often collaborated on his boooks with David Horowitz. Together they co-wrote books about dynasty families like: The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty (1976), The Kennedys: An American Drama (1984) and The Fords: An American Epic (1987), and in 1994 Collier published The Roosevelts: An American Saga, with Horowitz contributing. In addition, Collier wrote a novel, Down River (1979); a children's book, The King's Giraffe (with his wife, 1996); and books honoring military figures like Medal of Honor: Portraits of Valor Beyond the Call of Duty (2003).
During the 1960s and '70s, Collier and Horowitz worked together on the New Left journal Ramparts, but "made a 180-degree turn and began writing books and articles from the conservative side of the spectrum. Their 1989 book, Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About the Sixties, attacked what they perceived to be the nostalgia that had grown up around that decade. In 1998, Collier founded Encounter Books, which has published a range of authors, many of them conservative.
Peter Collier passed away on November 1, 2019 from leukemia. He was 80 years old.
(Bowker Author Biography)