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...Flaubert", Professor Campbell, Sever...
...Assomoir (1877) sold 100,000 copies. This drab vignette of lowly Parisian life rooted naturalism in the literary soil. Zola married an intelligent, passionate woman. He met weekly with Gustave Flaubert, Edmond de Goncourt, Alphonse Daudet, Ivan Turgeniev. He was famed, fat crammed with food. He worked incessantly ? news articles, plays, novels. His villa at Medan. outside Paris, grew in bulk and reputation. Its owner was excoriated, saluted, accused, defended. Madame Zola remained childless...
...impulse, vowed he would save other youth from similar distress, and devoted his life to elucidation. With this end always in mind, his studies ranged from ten years' medical practice to wide reading of philosophy, history, and fiction, recorded in his six volumes of annotated quotations-Taine, Swinburne, Flaubert, Strauss, Voltaire, Boccaccio, Whitman...
There were no startling changes during the first few days of the Moore regime. Photographs of girls with their legs crossed and dresses barely covering the hips continued to appear on the front pages; Elinor Glyn kept on writing about "It;" Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary ran along in pictorial form so that no gum-chewer could miss the point. In the Mirror were photographs of a Negro and a white baby, "brought together by fate" at the Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan. The Negro infant got the caption...
...automobile, mirabile dictu, has caused the alarming decadence of French literature. When Zola, Daudet, Flaubert, and Maupassant went out, the evil-smelling horseless carriage came in. Since the hectic days of the Paris-Madrid races Frenchmen have been too busy driving and repairing their machines--have smudged their fingers too much with grease--to cultivate the fine arts of Moliere and Racline...