Germinal (Penguin Classics)
Contributors: Leonard Tancock (Introduction, Translator)
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: November 30, 1954
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780140440454
First sentence: ON a pitch-black, starless night, a solitary man was trudging along the main road from Marchiennes to Montsou, ten kilometres of cobblestones running straight as a die across the bare plain between fields of beet.