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In the Land of Pain by Alphonse Daudet
Category: Health
Alphonse Daudet was a highly popular nineteenth-century French novelist, whose work radiated humour and good cheer. Few knew that for his entire adult life he suffered from syphilis, a disease both unmentionable and incurable at the time. What even fewer realised was that he kept an intimate notebook in ...Show more
Letters from My Windmill by Alphonse Alphonse Daudet
Category: Biography Memoir
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 ...Show more
Letters from My Windmill by Alphonse Daudet
Category: unmapped | Series: Classics Ser.
Alphonse Daudet's novels established him as the most successful writer in France by the end of the XIX century. Throughout his working life in Paris Daudet never lost his almost umbilical attachment to Provence. Here, he presents tales of that region that are characterised by tenderness and delicacy, as ...Show more
Sappho by Graham (TRN) Alphonse; Anderson Daudet
Category: Classics | Series: Dedalus European Classics Ser.
Passionate, calculating, only sometimes honourable but always honest, Fanny Legrand is one of the great female characters in literature. Nothing could be more shocking to Jean Gaussin, a serious young student from the provinces, than the moral swamp his mistress has been living in before they met. Sculp ...Show more
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