The Soil (La terre): A Realistic Novel by Émile Zola
"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. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Zola, Émile, 1840-1902 |
|---|---|
| Editor | Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred, 1853-1922 |
| Title | The Soil (La terre): A Realistic Novel |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Terre |
| Credits |
Produced by Clare Graham & Marc D'Hooghe at Free Literature (Images generously made available by the Internet Archive.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 77.8 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| 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. | 56687 |
| Release Date | Mar 6, 2018 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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