 | Little What's-His-Name (Le Petit Chose. French Classics) by Alphonse Daudet
Buy new: $14.78 / Used from: $11.82 His first published novel. The first part was composed in that Southern France it describes so charmingly; its first chapters form one of the most touching of autobiographies. In the second part Daudet has to tell of the struggles of an idealistic young poet in the selfish, devouring whirlpool of Paris.
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 | In the Land of Pain by Alphonse Daudet
Buy used from: $0.37 Translated into English for the first time. Basically a loose journal of ideas, metaphors and observations, the book offers a devastating emotional and spiritual portrait of a main in profound physical pain in the tertiary stage of syphilis.
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 | Letters From My Windmill (Penguin Classics) by Alphonse Daudet
Buy new: $11.13 / Used from: $4.75 The "Letters", first published in book form in 1869, remained his favourite creation and has proved his most lasting. Throughout his working life in Paris Daudet never lost his almost umbilical attachment to Provence.
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 | Tartarin of Tarascon by Alphonse Daudet
Buy new: $9.90 / Used from: $12.98 Tartarin is the literary prototype of a man of the Provence in the 19th century. Fun to read.
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