TY - BOOK AU - Zola,Émile TI - La Terre AV - PQ PY - 2005/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Inheritance and succession -- Fiction KW - France -- History -- Second Empire, 1852-1870 -- Fiction KW - Peasants -- France -- Fiction KW - France -- Social conditions -- Fiction N1 - 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 N2 - "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.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8563 ER -