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¶ After years of listening to a tuneless whistling sound his wife made whenever she wished to taunt him, Emile Scheermaeker. a 52-year-old Woonsocket. R.I. machinist, could stand no more. Raging like a wild beast, he smashed her head with a clawhammer, ran the bathtub full of water...
EMILE ZOLA (148 pp.]-Angus Wilson -Morrow ($3).
"I do not expect justice," said Emile Zola in 1897, at the height of his fame. "I know that I must disappear." So far as his literary popularity was concerned, the forecast was sound. After his death in 1902, his readers began dropping away. Between 1932 and 1952 not a...
It is against this background that British Author Angus Wilson moves for a "deserved re-estimation" in his short, sharp critical study, Emile Zola. Wilson's summary: Zola was "one of the great cumbrous, magnificent pithecanthropi of 19th century literature . . . the close companion of Balzac, Dickens, and Dostoevsky, a...
Dr. Nye began with a Danish survey map made in 1938. His mathematical predictions agree with measurements made by French Explorer Paul-Emile Victor as recently as 1950. Victor's party, however, had to make a 700-mile trek across southern Greenland. Every ten miles they measured ice thickness...