Title: one of the best novels about the working class ever written
Product review: This is one of the main novels of the Rougon-Macquart series. Its main character is Etienne Lantier, who is one of the sons of Gervaise Macquart, the heroine of "l'Assommoir/the Drum Shop". The novel revolves around the coal mining community. The sharp contrasts between the poor and the rich are displayed in chapter II of part 1 and chapter I of part 2. Theere are two violent encounters between the rich and the poor in chapter VI of part 5 and chapter IV of part 7. However, the working class fails to overthrow its oppressors. In this novel one can clearly see Zola's negative attitude towards the revolutionaries...
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