In the oft-excerpted second chapter of (*)
In Sister Carrie, Minnie has a dream in which Carrie tries to convince her to enter one of theseplaces. In The Gilded Age, Philip Sterling and Harry Brierly are contracted by the Bolton family toopen one of these institutions in Ilium. In Up From Slavery, Booker T. Washington describes learningof the Hampton Institute while working in one of them. In one novel, Aaron Sisson quits his job atone these places before impulsively going to Italy. In the oft-excerpted second chapter of (*) The Roadto Wigan Pier, George Orwell described his tour of one of them. Elizabeth's husband dies in one in "TheOdour of Chrysanthemums" and Walter Morel works in one in Sons and Lovers. In another novel,Catherine Maheu suffocates in one of these places after having an affair with Etienne Lantier. For 10points, Emile Zola's novel Germinal depicts life at what sort of underground location?
In Sister Carrie, Minnie has a dream in which Carrie tries to convince her to enter one of theseplaces.
coal mines [prompt on "mines"]