01835cam a22003613u 4500 56687 UtSlPG 20260610134315.0 m cr n 260607r2018||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PQ Zola, Émile, 1840-1902 The Soil (La terre): A Realistic Novel Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2018 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 Release date is 2018-03-06 Produced by Clare Graham & Marc D'Hooghe at Free Literature (Images generously made available by the Internet Archive.) "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.) Original publication data not identified Inheritance and succession -- Fiction France -- History -- Second Empire, 1852-1870 -- Fiction Peasants -- France -- Fiction France -- Social conditions -- Fiction Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred, 1853-1922 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56687 97518 97518