The Soil (La terre): A Realistic Novel: Classic Book Guide and Free Edition
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The Soil (La terre): A Realistic Novel is catalogued by Project Gutenberg with author credits for Zola, Émile (1840–1902).
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"The Soil (La terre): A Realistic Novel by Émile Zola" is a novel published in 1887. Set in rural France during the Second Empire, it follows Jean Macquart, a farm worker who arrives in a village and becomes entangled with the Mouche family. When elderly farmer Fouan divides his land among his children, greed and resentment poison family bonds. The story chronicles the brutal disintegration of peasant life, where inheritance disputes, jealousy, and violence consume those bound to the soil.
Book and edition facts
- Title: The Soil (La terre): A Realistic Novel
- Author credits: Zola, Émile (1840–1902)
- Catalogue language: English
Catalogue subjects
- France -- History -- Second Empire, 1852-1870 -- Fiction
- France -- Social conditions -- Fiction
- Inheritance and succession -- Fiction
- Peasants -- France -- Fiction
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- Category: French Literature
- Category: Novels
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