Germinal: OEuvres completes - Les Rougon-Macquart, XIII in Bloomington, MN

Germinal, the most famous work by Emile Zola, is the second workers' novel in the Rougon Macquart series. Like L'Assommoir, it depicts the condition of workers, in this case miners in Northern France. It is also a novel of social conflict and the class struggle.