Letters from my Windmill: Provencal Life in the 18th Century - Softcover

Dauet, Alphonse

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9780141391076: Letters from my Windmill: Provencal Life in the 18th Century

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ISBN 10: 0141391073 ISBN 13: 9780141391076

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2001

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Sitting on the terrace of his ruined windmill near Fontvielle, Daudet effortlessly evokes the quality of light, the heady scents, and the vital rhythms of Provencal life. With all the skilful ease of an Impressionist painter, he relives and revives the 'splendid days of my youth, the hours of foolish laughter, moments of ecstasy never regretted'. The wryly humourous stories in this volume, first published in 1869, were Daudet's favourite creation; admired by Flaubert, Dickens and Henry James, they have become his best and most enduring work.

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Alphonse Daudet was born at Nimes in Provence in 1840. He is chiefly remembered for LETTERS FROM MY WINDMILL and for his Tartarin novels, a sequence of burlesque tales of Provencal life. Daudet was also active in public life in France and served in the Garde Nationale during Franco-Prussian war. He died in 1897. Frederick Davies was a Fellow of Churchill College Cambridge and translated many classic works of French literature into English. He died in 1990.

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