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Rereading Zola's Germinal

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RereadingBooksRuth Scurr on one of Zola's greatest novels, a parable of the love-hate relationship that human beings have with the EarthEmile Zola's monumental Germinal was published in 1885: the year Freud arrived in Paris to study hysteria, and the year the miner's son, DH Lawrence, was born. Psychologically, socially and politically, Germinal was a trailblazing fiction, set in the 1860s in a mining community in northern France. It was the 13th novel in Zola's 20-volume Rougon-Macquart series, which he subtitled: " Read More...

Maine Mass Shooting Suspect Robert Card Found Dead From Apparent Suic

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Androscoggin County Sheriff's Office Robert Card -- the man accused of going on a shooting spree in Maine, killing at least 18 people and injuring over a dozen more -- has been found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Card's body was just found in the woods in Maine and officials are expected to share more details in a news conference scheduled for 7 PM PT. Androscoggin County Sheriff's Office As we reported, a manhunt was underway for 40-year-old Card after he opened fire at a bowling alley and a bar in Lewiston, Maine Wednesday night . Read More...

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