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Alphonse Daudet
Letters From My
windmill
TRANSLATED WITH AIsi INTRODUCTION
BY FREDERICK DAVIES AND ILLUSTRATED
BY EDWARD ARDIZZONE
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Throughout his celebrated career as a Parisian novelist,
Alphonse Daudet always remained a true son of Provence.
Sitting on the terrace of his ruined windmill near Fontvielle,
Daudet effortlessly evokes the quality of light, the heady
scents, the vital rhythms of Provençal 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 humorous 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.
This translation by Frederick Davies, which includes
numerous original illustrations by Edwârd Ardizzone,
succeeds in retaining the idiosyncratic and richly allusive
style of Daudet's...
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Fülszöveg
Alphonse Daudet
Letters From My
windmill
TRANSLATED WITH AIsi INTRODUCTION
BY FREDERICK DAVIES AND ILLUSTRATED
BY EDWARD ARDIZZONE
%
Throughout his celebrated career as a Parisian novelist,
Alphonse Daudet always remained a true son of Provence.
Sitting on the terrace of his ruined windmill near Fontvielle,
Daudet effortlessly evokes the quality of light, the heady
scents, the vital rhythms of Provençal 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 humorous 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.
This translation by Frederick Davies, which includes
numerous original illustrations by Edwârd Ardizzone,
succeeds in retaining the idiosyncratic and richly allusive
style of Daudet's prose with its charm, its power and its
great lyricism.
The cover shows a detail from 'Harvest-the Plain of La Crau' by Vincent Van Gogh,
in the Rijks-museum Vincent Van Gogh, Amsterdam
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