Sons of the Soil
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Nach den Napoleonischen Kriegen erwirbt Graf Montcornet das Gut Les Aigues, ein wunderschönes Schloss in Burgund mit zahlreichen Ländereien. Dort hofft er gemeinsam mit seiner Braut Virginie auf ein ruhiges zufriedenes Leben. Er hat jedoch nicht mit der Ablehnung durch den Rest der Dorfgemeinschaft gerechnet: auf der einen Seite die raffgierigen und erpresserischen Bauern, die mit allen Mitteln für ein Stück eigenes Land kämpfen, und auf der anderen Seite die Ausbeutungsclique der Finanzbourgeoisie, die beim Kauf des Guts von Montcornet überboten wurde und nun auf Rache sinnt. Beide versuchen ...
Chapters (36)
- SONS OF THE SOIL
- Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
- DEDICATION SONS OF THE SOIL PART I
- PART II
- ADDENDUM
- DEDICATION
- SONS OF THE SOIL
- PART I
- CHAPTER I. THE CHATEAU
- CHAPTER II. A BUCOLIC OVERLOOKED BY VIRGIL
- CHAPTER III. THE TAVERN
- CHAPTER IV. ANOTHER IDYLL
- CHAPTER V. ENEMIES FACE TO FACE
- CHAPTER VI. A TALE OF THIEVES
- CHAPTER VII. CERTAIN LOST SOCIAL SPECIES
- CHAPTER VIII. THE GREAT REVOLUTIONS OF A LITTLE VALLEY
- CHAPTER IX. CONCERNING THE MEDIOCRACY
- CHAPTER X. THE SADNESS OF A HAPPY WOMAN
- CHAPTER XI. THE OARISTYS, EIGHTEENTH ECLOGUE OF THEOCRITUS
- LITTLE ADMIRED ON THE POLICE CALENDAR
- CHAPTER XII. SHOWETH HOW THE TAVERN IS THE PEOPLE’S PARLIAMENT
- CHAPTER XIII. A TYPE OF THE COUNTRY USURER
- PART II
- CHAPTER I. THE LEADING SOCIETY OF SOULANGES
- CHAPTER II. THE CONSPIRATORS IN THE QUEEN’S SALON
- CHAPTER III. THE CAFE DE LA PAIX
- CHAPTER IV. THE TRIUMVIRATE OF VILLE-AUX-FAYES
- CHAPTER V. VICTORY WITHOUT A FIGHT
- CHAPTER VI. THE FOREST AND THE HARVEST
- CHAPTER VII. THE GREYHOUND
- CHAPTER VIII. RURAL VIRTUE
- CHAPTER IX THE CATASTROPHE
- CHAPTER X. THE TRIUMPH OF THE VANQUISHED
- 1845.
- ADDENDUM
- The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy.
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