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Emile Zola
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In this work of literary criticism, the American novelist and critic William Dean Howells assesses the French writer Émile Zola and his fiction. It suits readers interested in nineteenth-century literature, literary naturalism, and American critical views of European authors.
William Dean Howells
William Dean Howells was an American realist novelist, literary critic, playwright, and diplomat, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". He was particularly known for his tenure as editor of The Atlantic Monthly, as well as for the novels The Rise of Silas Lapham and A Traveler from Altruria, and the Christmas story "Christmas Every Day", which was adapted into a 1996 film of the same name.
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