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Alexandre Dumas fils, (1824-1895), owed the first success of his celebrity to "La Dame aux Camelias", and "Question d'Argent." As Augier, although in a different way, he is especially a moralist and his attacks are directed against the vices of his time. "Le Fils Natural" and "Le Pere Predigue" are the two sides of one same social thesis. He also laughs at ill matched marriages. The aim of Dumas in to rebuild Society by means of the family, and the family, by means of love. He declared that always and everywhere he aimed at an "ideal of love...
Henri Meilhac (1632-1697), and Ludovic Halevy (1834) have published a great many operettas, vaudevilles, comedies, and even ballets and pantomines. They are parodists in "La Belle Helene" (1864), already satiric in "La Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein. In Fronfrou (1869) they attained great success...
...attempt to accomplish a certain end by taking a certain attitude. The ordinary novel is objectionable, as Poe says, because it cannot be read at one sitting, but the combination of brevity and unity in the short story is its greatest charm. Every work of fiction depends for its success on its characters, its plot, or its action and circumstances. In character delineation alone there are many differences between the novel and the short story. While in the latter a character must catch the eye at once, in a novel a commonplace character can be tolerated for a time, because...
...tank is being used on alternate days by the Weld and Newell clubs, and has thus far proved useful but not entirely satisfactory. Although skeleton blades are used, the water seems heavy on the car and requires more work than in an ordinary shell. Nevertheless it is considered a success and a great improvement over the machines...
...Vanity Fair" was Thackeray's first great success. In truthful depiction and now in satire he had succeeded; he was then to enter, as a novelist, the third stage of his literary development. "Fun is good, truth is better, and love is best of all" he once wrote, and he was about to take up that kind of writing which mirrors the moral ideals of the world, the law of which is love. If "Vanity Fair" was Thackeray's most powerful book, "Henry Esmond" was of all his works the best and noblest. Its charm does...