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Earth (Paperback)
Series: Oxford World's Classics
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'Only the earth is immortal...the earth we love enough to commit
murder for her.' Zola's novel of peasant life, the fifteenth in the
Rougon-Macquart series, is generally regarded as one of his finest
achievements, comparable to Germinal and L'Assommoir. Set in a
village in the Beauce, in northern France, it depicts the harshness
of the peasants' world and their visceral attachment to the land.
Jean Macquart, a veteran of the battle of Solferino and now an
itinerant farm labourer, is drawn into the affairs of the Fouan
family when he starts courting young Francoise. He becomes involved
in a bitter dispute over the property of Papa Fouan when the old
man divides his land between his three children. Resentment turns
to greed and violence in a Darwinian battle for supremacy. Zola's
unflinching depiction of the savagery of peasant life shocked his
readers, and led to attacks on Naturalism's literary agenda. This
new translation captures the novel's blend of brutality and
lyricism in its evocation of the inexorable cycle of the natural
world. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics
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scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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