Toward the end of this novel, one elderly character strangles another character to death in a fit of madness, having earlier attempted to strangle the same girl.
Toward the end of this novel, one elderly character strangles another character to death in a fit of madness, having earlier attempted to strangle the same girl. Another character's former mistress, Annouchka, was hanged because of his attempt to assassinate the Czar. One character in this novel is mutilated after slipping from his roof; that is the greedy shopkeeper Maigrat. The protagonist hides the body of a guard murdered by a young street urchin, Jeanlin, and this novel also features a character whose nickname comes from his many brushes with death, Bonnemort. The anarchist Souvarine causes a flood before leaving Montsou, and the protagonist kills his rival Chaval in duel, after which the protagonist's lover dies of suffocation underground. For 10 points, name this novel in which Catherine Maheu and Ã‰tienne Lantier take part in a coalminers' strike, written by Emile Zola.
Toward the end of this novel, one elderly character strangles another character to death in a fit of madness, having earlier attempted to strangle the same girl.
Germinal