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From: The Modern Language Review
Date: 20050701
Author:Tulloch, Ian

Germinal. By EMILE ZOLA. Trans. by ROGER PEARSON. London: Penguin. 2004. xlvi+546 pp. 7.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-140-44742-3.

Roger Pearson's new English translation of Emile Zola's Germinal (1885) represents a thoroughly rigorous and often extremely well-written addition to the rapidly expanding corpus of such works. Before embarking upon the narrative proper, the reader receives, by way of an introduction of thirty-seven pages, a preliminary grounding in the historical and literary context surrounding the publication of the French original. Further useful supplementary ...

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