Show A STORY ABOUT ZOLA SOLA how hov great french writer would ge be Black blackmailers mallets A characteristic charack instance of emilo emile zolas independence and also of his self occur occurred redl not long ba before lifs his death during the years of his obscurity lie he hart haa donea donca a good deal ot 0 hack writing some df abi which cli was obviously sly that and nothing moro perhaps haps the poorest tiling thing he ever did was his novel called les mysteries My de marseille which Is really a very hasty bit of serf scribbling ablin g long after zola became cai no famous f a molls ho ho was az as accustomed to t 0 receive letters L from persons persona stating statin 6 C ti that 1 lit they had in i n their possession slon copies of this book which was cheri 1 hen out of j print r int and supposing that zola jn was jr anxious an to suppress lit it as being unworthy of ills his genius the writers of the letters offered oft erad him their copies at an 0 extravagant price so that he might de destroy btroy them this sort of thing finally irritated zola whoso choso boast boas t always was that thai lie he had never written a line of which he was ashamed therefore just to show how hov mist mistaken alcon ills his correspondents were nvere when the last edition of h his s complete works appeared pe ared he had hadtke the mysteries My die tda marseilles se sel illes lles reprinted and included in the serles series with no attempt whatever to change it from the form in which it ahad originally been published |