La Terre by Émile Zola
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"La Terre" by Émile Zola is a novel published in 1887. Set in rural France during the Second Empire, it follows Jean Macquart, an itinerant farm worker who arrives in a small village and becomes entangled with a disintegrating peasant family. Through his eyes, Zola depicts the brutal hardships of agricultural life as greed, lust, and violence corrupt family bonds. The story builds toward the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War, revealing the
savage reality beneath pastoral images of countryside existence. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Zola, Émile, 1840-1902 |
|---|---|
| Title | La Terre |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Terre fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Terre_(%C3%89mile_Zola) |
| Credits | Christine De Ryck Carlo Traverso, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 79.8 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Inheritance and succession -- Fiction |
| Subject | France -- History -- Second Empire, 1852-1870 -- Fiction |
| Subject | Peasants -- France -- Fiction |
| Subject | France -- Social conditions -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 8563 |
| Release Date | Jul 1, 2005 |
| Last Update | Dec 26, 2020 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 424 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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