In his best work, Germinal, Émile Zola realistically described the inhuman living and working conditions of miners in northern France in the 60s of the 19th century.
Notes from a Dead Home (1860-1862) - a novel based on the author's imprisonment in Siberia. Winter Notes on Summer Impressions (1863) - an essay from a trip to Europe in 1862. Notes from the Underworld (1864) is a philosophical novel about a man torn by i
