Zola, Émile,  1840-1902 <br/><br/>
The Soil (La terre): A Realistic Novel 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Terre  Release date is 2018-03-06 
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<br/><br/> "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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<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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