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Books like Germinal
Germinal by Émile Zola is about class war, labor and survival, collective action. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Père Goriot
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Honoré de Balzac · Classics
Père Goriot is the novel where Balzac's Human Comedy — his vast project of interlocking stories about French society — finds its moral and architectural center.
Read the summary → - The Red and the Black
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Stendhal · Classics
The Red and the Black follows Julien Sorel, the son of a provincial carpenter and the most self-consciously ambitious character in the French novel, as he attempts to rise through the social hierarchy of post-Napoleonic France by any means available to him.
Read the summary → - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari · History
Sapiens traces the full arc of human history from the emergence of Homo sapiens in Africa roughly 70,000 years ago to the present.
Read the summary → - Capital: Volume I
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Karl Marx · Economics
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume I, published in 1867, is Karl Marx's systematic analysis of the capitalist mode of production.
Read the summary → - Bleak House
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Charles Dickens · Classics
Bleak House is organized around the interminable Chancery case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce — a legal dispute over a will that has been grinding through the Court of Chancery for decades, consuming the fortunes and lives of everyone attached to it.
Read the summary → - Candide
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Voltaire · Classics
Candide is a young man raised in a Westphalian castle on the philosophy of his tutor Pangloss: that everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.
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