The novels central character is tienne Lantier, previously seen in LAssommoir (1877), a young migrant worker who arrives at the forbidding coalmining town of Montsou in the bleak far north of France to earn a living as a miner. Sacked from his previous job on the railways for assaulting a superior - he befriends the veteran miner Maheu, who finds him somewhere to stay and gets him a job pushing the carts down the pit. tienne is portrayed as a hard-working idealist but also a nave youth;.
| ISBN: | 9781515445623 |
| Publication date: | 1st September 2020 |
| Author: | Zola, Emile |
| Publisher: | Dancing Unicorn Books |
| Format: | Ebook (Epub) |