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I then returned to the Fontainebleau region and gave "The Old Wives' Tale" no rest till I finished it at the end of July, 1908. It was published in the autumn of the same year, and for six weeks afterward the English public steadily confirmed an opinion expressed by a certain person in whose judgment I had confidence, to the effect that the work was honest but dull, and that when it was not dull it had a regrettable tendency to facetiousness. My publishers, though brave fellows, were somewhat disheartened; however, the reception of the book gradually became less and less frigid 去书内
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  • Lesley Lesley

    然后我回到枫丹白露地区，直到1908年7月底完成《老妇人的故事》，我才停止创作。这本书于同年秋天出版，此后的六个星期里，英国公众不断地证实了某个人表达的观点，我对他的判断很有信心，大意是这本书很诚实，但乏味，当它不乏味时，就有一种令人遗憾的滑稽倾向。我的出版商，虽然是勇敢的人，却有些沮丧;然而，人们对这本书的态度逐渐变得越来越冷淡。

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