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Aet. 33, to a French novelist and man of letters. “Mudie and Nude-Y,” about issues raised in George Moore’s Literature at Nurse, appeared in The World (12 August 1885). Zola’s next novel L’Œuvre (1886) is about modern artists; it may have been partly inspired by George Moore’s first novel, A Modern Lover (1881).