La Terre

La Terre
The Earth (1887).
AuthorÉmile Zola
LanguageFrench
SeriesLes Rougon-Macquart
GenreNaturalist novel
PublisherCharpentier
Publication date
1887
Publication placeFrance
Media typePrint (serial, hardback & paperback)
Preceded byNana 
Followed byLa Débâcle 

La Terre (The Earth) 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 west of Paris. The novel is connected to others in the series by the protagonist, Jean Macquart, whose childhood in the south of France was recounted in La Fortune des Rougon, and who goes on to feature prominently in the later novel La Débâcle.