La Terre is a novel by Émile Zola, published in 1887. It 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 s
The Earth (1887).
Les Rougon-Macquart is a literary cycle of twenty novels by French writer Émile Zola. Subtitled Histoire naturelle et sociale d'une famille sous le Second Empire, it follows the lives of the members o
First page of La Fortune des Rougon, the first book of the series
Zola, with the book of the Rougon-Macquart under his arm, salutes the statue of Balzac.
Letter by Zola to his publisher
The 1878 tree, published in a note included in Une Page d'amour