01797cam a22003493u 4500 8563 UtSlPG 20260610133223.0 m cr n 260607r2005||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG fr iso639-1 PQ Zola, Émile, 1840-1902 La Terre Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2005 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier 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 Christine De Ryck Carlo Traverso, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team "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.) Original publication data not identified Inheritance and succession -- Fiction France -- History -- Second Empire, 1852-1870 -- Fiction Peasants -- France -- Fiction France -- Social conditions -- Fiction https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8563 50545 50545