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.
