- Mass Market Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Classic; Reissue edition (Jan 29 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0140443347
- ISBN-13: 978-0140443349
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 222 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #536,296 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Book Description
Throughout his career, celebrated Parisian novelist Daudet remained a true son of Provence. This collection of wryly humorous stories, admired by Flaubert, Dickens, and Henry James, evokes the vital rhythms of Provençal life and Daudet's youth in the mid-nineteenth century.
About the Author
Alphonse Daudet was born at Nimes in 1840. He is chiefly remembered today for LETTERS FROM MY WINDMILL which appeared in 1866, and for his Tartarin novels, a sequence of burlesque tales of Provencal life. Daudet died in 1897.
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IT is the rabbits who have been taken aback! Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover
IT is the rabbits who have been taken aback! Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover
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A brilliant collection of entertaining stories, May 7 2003
By Charlton Griffin "Charlton" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Modern Classics Letters From My Windmill (Mass Market Paperback)
In the late 1860s when Alphonse Daudet set out to write stories about his native Provence in serial form for a newspaper, I seriously doubt that he was aware that he was going to leave a masterpiece behind. Luckily for us, he has done just that. The stories are not linked by any particular theme and they all concern the humorous and sometimes tragic goings-on of local characters. Daudet has a peculiarly powerful way of displaying his sympathy for these people and the beautiful countryside they live in. These stories almost seem to have an air of medieval romance to them, though Daudet's writing is very modern in its simplicity of style. The plots display a range from uproarious comedy to a sweet melancholia. Always there is a whiff of nostalgia in the air as Daudet witnesses the very beginnings of modern life and its impact on his beloved Provence. This is a book to treasure and to share with your best friends. If you have not seen the old 1954 black and white French film version in English subtitles, by all means track it down. It's a classic.
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