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The Soil (La terre): A Realistic Novel

by Émile Zola

History · Novel

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The Soil (La terre): A Realistic Novel is the fifteenth novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series. The action takes place in a rural community in the Beauce, an area in central France south of Paris.

About the author

Émile Zola (1840–1902) is represented here by 21 public-domain titles, including Abbe Mouret's Transgression, Doctor Pascal, and For a Night of Love. This page is a shelf list: the books are read on Open Library, not stored here. More of this shelf for Émile Zola.

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