About this audiobook
Author: Émile Zola
Type: Fiction
Language: French
Literary tradition: France
Duration: 18h 45m
Narrator: LibriVox Volunteers
Source: LibriVox / Internet Archive
This public-domain audiobook is provided for free listening.
About the Story
In a northern French mining town, Etienne Lantier finds work among families living with exhausting poverty and dangerous conditions. When wages and hope collapse, the miners' struggle grows into a confrontation with the owners.
Emile Zola's powerful social novel is a major work of naturalism. Germinal portrays labor, solidarity, hunger, and the human cost of industrial inequality with lasting force.
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Recording source: Internet Archive.