Earth

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Author: Émile Zola

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….Read More

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L’Assommoir

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