Alphonse Daudet
French author known for his warm, humorous, and often melancholic portrayals of life in Provence and Paris. His Tartarin de Tarascon trilogy is a beloved comic masterpiece, and his short stories rival Maupassant in craft.
Works
- Tartarin of TarasconComic novel of a braggard hunter in southern France who hunts big game across Africa
- Fromont and RislerNovel of social aspiration and class tensions between factory workers and industrialists
- JackNovel portraying a boy's painful journey from poverty to hard-won moral maturity
- SaphoNovel of passionate love between a writer and a courtesan in Belle Époque Paris
- Letters from My WindmillCollected tales of rural Provence told by a retired mailman at his windmill