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Émile Zola: Earth (Oxford World's Classics) [2016] paperback MYTHS The Herald 2017 Books of'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