Earth
by:
Émile Zola (author)
Brian Nelson (author)
Julie Rose (author)
'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...
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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 at
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780199677870 (0199677875)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pages no: 464
Edition language: English
Series: Les Rougon-Macquart (#15)
IntroductionTranslators' NoteSelect BibliographyA Chronology of Émile Zola--EarthExplanatory Notes
What can I say? I like melodrama. This is perhaps my favourite Zola novel so far. The writing is amazing, and all the characters are, as usual, wonderfully flawed.
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