“This started everyone off, and each member of the family said their piece, as the fumes from the paraffin lamp mingled with the reek of fried onion and turned the air fouler still. No, certainly, life was hardly a bed of roses. You worked like an animal doing what used to be done by convictsContinue reading “RKS French Literature: French Coal Miner Life: No Bed of Roses (Émile Zola)”
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