The Gold Sickle is a lesser-known novel of a french novelist Eugene Sue. As a writer, he was strongly influenced by socialist ideas. Most of his novels are dedicated to the topic of the sufferings of the poor. The presented here book is the first part of the series of 19 novels, The Mysteries of the People, created between 1849-1856. The cycle represents the history of two clans, from the times of Frank and Gaelic tribes to European revolutions in 1848. One family, the descendants of a Gallic chief named Joel, represents the oppressed. Through ages, they are doomed to protect their lives and from the descendants of a Frankish chief Neroweg, the oppressors, until the culmination times of revolutions which give the oppressed family a light of hope for a better future.
