The Zola, Émile 1840-1902 creator Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred 1853-1922 text utu 2018 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "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.) 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.) 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/56687 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56687 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134315.0 56687