La Zola, Émile 1840-1902 creator text utu 2005 monographic fr 1 online resource : multiple file formats "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.) 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 Original publication data not identified Inheritance and succession -- Fiction France -- History -- Second Empire, 1852-1870 -- Fiction Peasants -- France -- Fiction France -- Social conditions -- Fiction PQ Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8563 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8563 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133223.0 8563