Great Reading for the Upper School French Class
Discover essential French reading for upper school students with this curated book list, featuring literary classics like Emile Zola's *Germinal* and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's beloved *Le petit prince*, perfect for classroom study and building advanced language skills.
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Germinal
by Emile Zola
The thirteenth novel in Émile Zola’s great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at the exploitation of the many by the few, but also shows humanity’s capacity for compassion and hope. Etienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young man with a dangerous temper. Forced to take a back-breaking job at Le Voreux mine when he cannot get other work, he discovers that his fellow miners are ill, hungry, and in debt, unable to feed and clothe their families. When conditions in the mining community deteriorate even further, Lantier finds himself leading a strike that could mean starvation or salvation for all. New translation Includes introduction, suggestions for further reading, filmography, chronology, explanatory notes, and glossary
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Le petit prince
by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Eventyrfortælling om forfatterens møde med den lille prins fra en fjern planet
