Émile Zola

Contemporary reviews of Anna Lombard were largely, and somewhat predictably, condemnatory: the New York Times, for instance, found it to be entitled to be called a bold, or rather a brazen book, but it...

Thomas Hardy told LM after reading this novel that she was one of the few authors of the other sex who are not afraid of logical consequences. He also said that the wages of...

The Athenæum review was lukewarm at best, since the reviewer found the character of Strickland almost intolerably irritating.It summed up the work as a fairly well-written book of the better modern fashion [in contrast with...

During her lifetime CY was ranked as a serious novelist with Austen , Trollope , Balzac , and Zola . Contemporaries like Louisa Alcott , Margaret Oliphant , Ellen Wood , and Rhoda Broughton made...

One of the great practioners of literary realism, he shifted the European novel significantly towards naturalism. His influence ranged far, from literary friends such as Émile Zola to writers in English, including Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Henry Vizetelly , a publisher associated with progressive thinking of various kinds—he went to prison for publishing translations of Zola —promoted this novel by emphasis on its being a picture of Jewish life.

Her publisher was the notorious firm of Henry Vizetelly , who was to be jailed the year after this for publishing English translations of Zola . Vizetelly arranged for MH 's novel to be translated...

An article by Eliza Lynn Linton written in June 1887 (well after the ebbing of RB 's early, scandalous reputation) judged that her books were always essentially love-stories, and nothing else, but that without...

Wolff sees this novel as working out the Zola theory of hereditary destiny. However, although Ishmael vows to avenge his wrongs, when he discovers Pâquerette and Valnois separately years after their elopement he forgoes...

Its subjects are Ingres , Delacroix and Antoine-Jean Gros , Musset , Baudelaire , Edmond and Jules Goncourt , Zola and Huysmans . That is, AB has returned to take a different view of the...

MEB 's triple-decker The Golden Calf, 1883, is a naturalistic study of alcoholism, while Phantom Fortune another from the same year, features a decadent orphaned heiress named Lady Lesbia, and is based in part...

Harvard 's Houghton Library has a number of significant manuscripts by MEB including notebooks as well as novels. The extensive collection of her printed titles and manuscripts owned by Robert Lee Wolff of Harvard University

Borrowing a famous title from Zola , GG issued through a London publisher J'Accuse: The Dark Side of Nice, in which he accused the mayor of Nice in southern France, along with other...

AB published an ambitious art-critical work: The Genius of the Future: Studies in French Art Criticism: Diderot , Stendhal , Baudelaire , Zola , The BrothersGoncourt , Huysmans.

EA translated, from French to English, an edition of the Russian novelist Ivan Turgenev ’s letters to his friends in France, which included Gustave Flaubert , Émile Zola , Guy de Maupassant , and the...