Émile Zola: Earth (Oxford World's Classics) [2016] paperback MYTHS you might like Shirley Jackson's

you might like Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House

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mythological and pastoral themes that recur across the centuries is explored

Émile Zola: Earth (Oxford World's Classics) [2016] paperback MYTHS you might like Shirley Jackson's'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