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Salome, as a student work, an outcome of Oscar's admiration for Flaubert and his
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Herodias, on the one hand, and
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Les Sept Princesses, of Maeterlinck on the other. He has borrowed the colour and Oriental cruelty with the banquet-scene from the Frenchman, and from the Fleming the simplicity of language and the haunting effect produced by the repetition of significant phrases. Yet
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Salome