Zola, Émile,  1840-1902 <br/><br/>
La Terre 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Terre https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Terre_(%C3%89mile_Zola)  Release date is 2005-07-01 
<br/><br/>Christine De Ryck Carlo Traverso, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team  Christine De Ryck Carlo Traverso, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team 
<br/><br/> "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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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Inheritance and succession -- Fiction France -- History -- Second Empire, 1852-1870 -- Fiction Peasants -- France -- Fiction France -- Social conditions -- Fiction 
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