Letter

 1 Introd  |  According to this theory, the novel is as much a work of poetry
 2 Introd  |      to Flaubert’s theory, the novel should originate in a desire
 3 VI      |     want to dedicate to you my novel which is just coming out.
 4 VI      |       cold.~I have finished my novel, and you?~I kiss the two
 5 XXVII   |      not MEN. Good luck to the novel! It is exquisite; but oddly
 6 XXXII   |        and the tide passes.~My novel is going very badly for
 7 XXXV    |        Try some day to write a novel in which the artist (the
 8 XL      |        my friend Du Camp’s new novel: Forces Perdues. It is very
 9 XLII    |      Ah! who can know?~And the novel, is it getting on? Your
10 XLIII   |       continue to fuss over my novel, and I shall go to Paris
11 XLIV    |  continue indefinitely; if the novel has to last longer, you
12 XLVII   |        yours on faience; (2) a novel by father X—-, a Jesuit,
13 XLVIII  |       not I who promised you a novel on the Holy Virgin. At least
14 XLIX    |       strong and tolerant.~The novel does not go at all well.
15 LIV     |       that very funny.~And the novel? Does it go on its way the
16 LVIII   |      Oh! what a fine epoch!~My novel goes piano. The further
17 LIX     |        again near her! And the novel? Good heavens! it must get
18 LX      |       with a journey as with a novel: those who travel are those
19 LX      |        t fear anything for the novel; but I fear for the nervous
20 LXII    |       work in order to write a novel, it discourages my facility,
21 LXIV    |      In order to go on with my novel, I must see a countryside
22 LXV     |    your heart prompts you. The novel goes on apace; but I shall
23 LXVIII  |     stirred before I finish my novel. Your friend is a man of
24 LXXIII  |        in the third part of my novel (when I reach the reaction
25 LXXIV   |      idea on that subject in a novel which has been sent to the
26 LXXXIV  |      between two pages of your novel, and I would make that fantastic
27 LXXXVII |     there for a long time, the novel must progress.~Yesterday
28 LXXXVIII|  absolutely like an oyster. My novel is the rock to which I attach
29 XC      |         I am taking up again a novel on the THEATRE, the first
30 XC      |       an annoyance to me. Your novel interests me more than all
31 XCI     |  actors, etc.? I mistrust your novel about the theatre. You like
32 XCIII   |    Doucet.)~But my everlasting novel bores me sometimes in an
33 XCVI    |      keep my hand in. I have a novel also on the stocks, on the
34 XCVI    |    some sign of life. Does the novel get on?~G. Sand~
35 XCVII   |      in.~However, I work at my novel like a lot of oxen. I hope
36 XCVIII  |  greatly. You shall bring your novel, and in a free moment, you
37 XCIX    |     the idea of saying that my novel tells the life of Chancellor
38 CI      |      catch a glimpse of what a novel ought to be. But I still
39 CII     |     may it see the end of your novel. May you keep well and be
40 CIII    |       writing my little annual novel, when I have one or two
41 CV      |       to get material for your novel, I am inventing all sorts
42 CX      |      too, and I wish when your novel is finished, that you would
43 CX      |       else.~I am working at my novel about TRAVELING ACTORS [
44 CXXI    |      Church Fathers. As for my novel l’Education sentimentale,
45 CXXXIII |       have half finished a new novel which will not make much
46 CXXXIII |       I work alternately on MY novel, the one that I like, and
47 CXXXVI  |        people who have read my novel are afraid to talk to me
48 CXL     |       other leg to write a new novel.~I embrace you.~Your old
49 CXLI    |    like an ox so as to have my novel finished and not to have
50 CLVI    |        chief characters of her novel, Malgre tout; the letter
51 CLXXV   |  understand.~I have finished a novel in the midst of this torment,
52 CLXXXIX |    last September, a plot of a novel by Isidore? What a scenario!~
53 CCXVII  |     soon as I have finished my novel which has remained with
54 CCXIX   |      URGENT work: finishing my novel, and correcting a mass of
55 CCXXII  |     are going to pay me for my novel in five or six days at the
56 CCLXIV  |        am so eager to start my novel which will take me several
57 CCLXXI  |        the long and successful novel published by the Revue.
58 CCLXXV  | important in the theatre. In a novel, one has time to win the
59 CCLXXVI |     that I shall return to the novel pure and simple. I have
60 CCLXXX  |       you wrote to me about my novel. In Paris I was overwhelmed
61 CCLXXXI |     make over, sometime ago, a novel that I had recommended to
62 CCLXXXII|     least of the phrases of my novel.~Public intelligence seems
63 CCXCIV  |         do us a new successful novel, and think of those who
64 CCXCIX  |        I have abandoned my big novel in order to write a little
65 CCXCIX  |     hunting for a contemporary novel, but I am hesitating among
66 CCCII   |        anti-human thing, and a novel ought to be human above
67 CCCV    |    Read, I beg of you, the new novel by Zola, Son Excellence
68 CCCXVII |       I hope to resume the big novel that I laid aside a year