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  • The Immortal

    Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877

    Alphonse Daudet's "The Immortal" is a poignant exploration of artistic ambition set against the vibrant backdrop of 19th-century Paris. Written in Daudet's signature lyrical style, the novella weaves complex narratives that reflect both the beauty and the despair of the creative life. The text deftly intersperses personal anecdotes with fictional elements, delving into the lives of artists who are ... Read more

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  • Artists' Wives

    ( Complete edition ) illustrated

    Series series Oeuvres de Alphonse Daudet
    Does the artist have to get married? To this simple question posed in the prologue, Alphonse Daudet replies in the negative and proves it in twelve little-known stories, first published in 1873.Poets, men of theater, musicians, sculptors, painters, obscure or famous, rich or broke are called to testify. The behaviors of the artistic world of the end of the century are sifted through an incisive ... Read more

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  • Letters from My Windmill

    Letters from My Windmill (French: Lettres de mon moulin) is a collection of short stories by Alphonse Daudet first published in its entirety in 1869. Some of the stories had been published earlier in newspapers or journals such as Le Figaro and L'Evénement as early as 1865.The stories are all told by the author in the first person, typically addressing a Parisian reader. The author, having ... Read more

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  • Letters from my Windmill

    Series series Classics To Go
    The stories are all told by the author in the first person, typically addressing a Parisian reader. The author, having relocated his home from Paris, recounts short bucolic tales about his new life in Provence as well as his trips to Corsica and French Algeria. Considered to be light-hearted, and often a bit tongue-in-cheek, the stories vary from day-to-day events in southern France to Provençal ... Read more

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  • Letters From My Windmill

    Translated by Mireille Harmelin, Keith Adams ...
    Have you ever fantasized about leaving big-city life behind and making a beeline for a bucolic village? That's exactly what Alphonse Daudet did, and he documents the results of his decision in the series of fictionalized sketches collected in Letters From My Windmill, in which he recounts his move from the hustle and bustle of Paris to the rustic life in a small village in Provence. The book is ... Read more

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  • Tartarin sur les Alpes: Nouveaux exploits du héros tarasconnais (in the original French)

    According to Wikipedia: "Alphonse Daudet (13 May 1840 16 December 1897) was a French novelist... In 1866, Daudet's Lettres de mon moulin, written in Clamart, near Paris, and alluding to a windmill in Fontvieille, Provence, won the attention of many readers. The first of his longer books, Le petit chose (1868), did not, however, produce popular sensation. It is, in the main, the story of his own ... Read more

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  • Tartarin On The Alps

    Series series Classics To Go
    The story was maybe better than the original "Tartarin of Tarascon". As usual, Tartarin doesn't have a clue what's happening in the world around him, falls pathetically in love, and bumbles through. (Goodreads) ... Read more

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  • Tartarin de Tarascon, in French

    According to Wikipedia: "Alphonse Daudet (13 May 1840 16 December 1897) was a French novelist... In 1866, Daudet's Lettres de mon moulin, written in Clamart, near Paris, and alluding to a windmill in Fontvieille, Provence, won the attention of many readers. The first of his longer books, Le petit chose (1868), did not, however, produce popular sensation. It is, in the main, the story of his own ... Read more

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  • Tartarin of Tarascon

    The Provençal town of Tarascon is so enthusiastic about hunting that no game lives anywhere near it, and its inhabitants resort to telling hunting stories and throwing their own caps in the air to shoot at them. Tartarin, a plump middle-aged man, is the chief "cap-hunter", but following his enthusiastic reaction to seeing an Atlas lion in a travelling menagerie, the over-imaginative town ... Read more

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  • Tartarin of Tarascon

    A delightful blend of satire, adventure, and irresistible humor, Tartarin of Tarascon is one of Alphonse Daudet's most beloved works—a comic masterpiece that playfully examines heroism, imagination, and the gap between dreams and reality. Set in the sunny Provençal town of Tarascon, the story introduces Tartarin, a larger-than-life character with a grand imagination and an even grander sense of ... Read more

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  • Tartarin of Tarascon

    The burlesque adventures of Tartarin, a local hero of Tarascon, a small town in southern France, whose invented adventures and reputation as a swashbuckler finally force him to travel to a very prosaic Algiers in search of lions. Instead of finding a romantic, mysterious Oriental fantasy land, he finds a sordid world suspended between Europe and the Middle East. And worst of all, there are no ... Read more

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  • Tartarin of Tarascon

    The story is set in the town of Tarascon, located in the south of France, and it revolves around the character Tartarin, whose full name is Tartarin de Tarascon. Tartarin is a middle-aged man who lives a quiet and uneventful life in Tarascon but is known for his vivid imagination and tendency to exaggerate his own exploits.Tartarin, despite never having left his hometown, presents himself as a ... Read more

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