TY - BOOK AU - Zola,Émile AU - Vizetelly,Ernest Alfred TI - The Soil (La terre): A Realistic Novel AV - PQ PY - 2018/// 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; 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 N2 - "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.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56687 ER -