Book description
Alphonse Daudet's novels established him as the most successful
writer in France by the end of the XIX century; but it was the
LETTERS, first published in book form in 1869, which 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. These tales of that region are
characterised by a tenderness and delicacy, a wistfulness and wry
humour, which give moving substance to his claim that to invent, for
him, was to remember.
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.
