Letter

  1 Introd   |           bourgeois has written a book which is directly inspired
  2 Introd   |           main conceptions of the book. This type generally represents
  3 Introd   |        friend, you must produce a book which will change and better
  4 Introd   |      writing on the margin of his book: ‘IT IS YOU, WHOSE EYES
  5 Introd   |           a so-called “realistic” book—one readily observes the
  6 Introd   |        fiction and recreation the book lacks, in his opinion, one
  7 Introd   |          Flaubert; but a charming book he never wrote. A total
  8 II       |           me M. Taine’s beautiful book. In the uncertainty I am
  9 XVI      |      writing on the margin of his book: IT IS BECAUSE YOU HAVE
 10 XXVII    |  Palaiseau and I shall hunt up my book on faience. If I forget
 11 XXXIV    |         occupy little space in my book and I have time to wait.
 12 XL       |        that you ought to put in a book. I wonder what her memoirs
 13 XL       |          doing, in many ways. His book is very naive and gives
 14 XLV      |          me that I once dreamed a book on Saint Perrine. Champfleury
 15 XLVII    |     received yesterday your son’s book. I shall start it when I
 16 LVIII    |          delays me. Moreover this book demands tiresome researches.
 17 LXVIII   |        him. Have you read his new book? His preface causes talk.
 18 LXXI     |       SALAMMBO gives me. That old book needs to be relieved from
 19 LXXIII   |         about him a propos of his book: De la propriete, and I
 20 LXXIII   |            perhaps of my wretched book? but that is more difficult
 21 LXXIII   |    January.~In order to finish my book in the spring of 1869, I
 22 LXXV     |        want to finish my dull old book by the summer of 1869.~I
 23 LXXXV    |         won’t forgive me for this book, nor the reactionaries either!
 24 LXXXV    |         to read at the end of his book on the observance of the
 25 LXXXVI   |        when you tell me that your book will blame the patriots
 26 LXXXVII  |           badly if I said that my book “will blame the patriots
 27 LXXXVIII |           me a year to finish the book. After that I shall abandon
 28 XCI      |          am reading now an honest book (written by one of my friends,
 29 XCI      |       flatter the democrats in my book. But I assure you that the
 30 CI       |        temperament? Can I write a book to which I shall give myself
 31 CI       |         in doing errands about my book. I was so worn out last
 32 CI       |            sic) admiration over a book entitled Histoire de ma
 33 CIV      |         Robespierre! Note Hamel’s book! If the Republic returned
 34 CVII     |      again. What a tremendous old book! Is there any more beautiful?~
 35 CXVIII   |        many good things about the book and made the remark that
 36 CXVIII   |         But he said to me, if the book is in two volumes, it will
 37 CXVIII   |         and he said to me: If the book is a success, I shall not
 38 CXVIII   |          don’t say no. Should the book succeed I will make the
 39 CXXXIII  |         have been announcing your book FOR TOMORROW. I am looking
 40 CXXXIV   |           I wanted to reread your book [Footnote: l’Education sentimentale.];
 41 CXXXIV   |            that it is a beautiful book, equal in strength to the
 42 CXXXV    |            The brave are few. The book is selling very well nevertheless,
 43 CXXXV    |           there is in printing my book?~
 44 CXXXVIII |          it because he finds “the book bad”? you have not such
 45 CXXXIX   |        not know how original your book is, and how many personal
 46 CXXXIX   |      insisted on the PLAN of your book; that is what they understand
 47 CXLIV    |        They continue to damn your book. That doesn’t prevent it
 48 CXLIV    |        from being a fine and good book. Justice will come later,
 49 CLXII    |          reading Taine’s powerful book? I have gobbled it down,
 50 CXCI     |           I want to read you that book (mine)!~I am not going to
 51 CXCIV    |         agony. The subtitle of my book could be The Height of Insanity.
 52 CCI      |          The intrinsic value of a book is nothing in the school
 53 CCII     |           think I have brought my book to a pretty degree of insanity.
 54 CCXII    |         exact. Since you own this book, look at page 100.~If I
 55 CCXIII   |       preface is splendid and the book [Footnote: Dernieres Chansons,
 56 CCXVII   |         her, even after that vile book in which she poured out
 57 CCXXXII  |          As I am going to begin a book which will exact much reading,
 58 CCXXXIV  |      about another more important book, etc., and to talk about
 59 CCXLIII  |    charming, in the middle of the book especially. But how well
 60 CCXLIII  |        strikes me the most in the book is that it is very intelligent
 61 CCXLIV   |          after a year or two if a book has SOLD. As for Buloz,
 62 CCXLV    |        the publishers, one’s last book is always inferior to the
 63 CCXLV    |          the critic who reads the book that he has to criticise?
 64 CCXLV    |        another entirely different book. I am working now on one
 65 CCXLV    |        her was the “youth” of the book. The criticism seems true
 66 CCXLV    |          true to me. It is a real BOOK while Francia, although
 67 CCXLVI   |        this, if you have a future book in your mind, if you are
 68 CCXLVII  |         good things, nor that the book of which I am dreaming now
 69 CCXLIX   | information don’t I need, for the book that I am undertaking? I
 70 CCLI     |           taking notes for my big book which will take five or
 71 CCLVII   |         for sending him your last book; but his reverence is working
 72 CCLIX    |          readings for my wretched book, which I shall not begin
 73 CCLX     |        soon as I no longer hold a book, or am not dreaming of writing
 74 CCLX     |        drawer and start at my old book. I am reading l’Histoire
 75 CCLXI    |         play? Have you begun your book? Have you chosen a place
 76 CCLXII   |         starting at my terrifying book, I shall make a last search
 77 CCLXII   |           that indeed a beautiful book, aside from some faults
 78 CCLXVI   |           Abbe Bautain. A curious book for a novelist. It smacks
 79 CCLXVIII |             But the aforesaid old book will not be published until
 80 CCLXX    |          enemy of Beranger). This book gave me hysterics.~So as
 81 CCLXXI   |           when it is published in book form.~Don’t you delay to
 82 CCLXXVI  |       start, this summer, another book of about the same calibre;
 83 CCLXXVII |        masterpiece, a magnificent book. Ridicule the critics, they
 84 CCLXXVIII|           I shall start at my big book which will take at least
 85 CCLXXIX  |    naturelle by Haeckel, a pretty book, pretty book! Darwinism
 86 CCLXXIX  |    Haeckel, a pretty book, pretty book! Darwinism seems to me to
 87 CCLXXIX  |       information he wanted for a book that he is going to do.
 88 CCLXXXII |          of August and started my book. The beginning was not easy,
 89 CCLXXXII |           mad to undertake such a book. I fear that, by its very
 90 CCLXXXII |          we descend? Belot’s last book sold eight thousand copies
 91 CCLXXXIV |           hundred devils about my book, asking myself sometimes
 92 CCLXXXVI |  martyrdom to us; there is a fine book to be written about that.~
 93 CCLXXXVII|       have undertaken a senseless book.~I lose myself in the recollections
 94 CCLXXXIX |        task.~I shall send you the book when it is published. I
 95 CCXCI    |        and grave doubts about the book that I am writing, that
 96 CCXCI    |          chapters of my frightful book. But Tourgueneff loves me
 97 CCXCV    |         since I have undertaken a book that has absurd difficulties
 98 CCCI     |     street that he can stick in a book, and I am well satisfied
 99 CCCII    |          has been a misunderstood book, as I have told you repeatedly,
100 CCCII    |        All the characters in that book are feeble and come to nothing,
101 CCCII    |        anyone had brought me your book without its being signed,
102 CCCII    |         critics favorable to this book which was so well written
103 CCCII    |       profitable meaning of one’s book. People found that with
104 CCCII    |       breaks away likewise from a book where all the characters
105 CCCIV    |       tell M. Zola to send me his book. I shall certainly read
106 CCCV     |           to Zola to send you his book. I shall tell Daudet also
107 CCCVI    |          like to read M. Daudet’s book first, the book you spoke
108 CCCVI    |          Daudet’s book first, the book you spoke of to me, the
109 CCCVI    |           that Rougon is a STRONG book, as you say, and worthy
110 CCCVIII  |     pleased you. It is a charming book, isn’t it? If you knew the
111 CCCVIII  |          him even better than his book. I have told him to send
112 CCCVIII  |   Propylaea). Well! I wonder if a book independently of what it
113 CCCIX    |       reader does not draw from a book the moral that should be
114 CCCIX    |      reader is an imbecile or the book is false from the point
115 CCCX     |         night, I rushed upon your book when morning came and devoured
116 CCCXII   |         thanked you for your last book? Could I be guilty of such
117 CCCXIII  |        dear friend, is, that your book has made me pass a sleepless
118 CCCXIII  |        fresh I shall take up your book again to find the flaws
119 CCCXIII  |        the choicest parts of your book, together with the homelife,
120 CCCXIII  |      memory, for I have lent your book, and it has not been returned
121 CCCXVIII |    interested, about the terrible book that I am in the process