Alphonse Daudet

Jack

Novel portraying a boy's painful journey from poverty to hard-won moral maturity

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Alphonse Daudet
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.

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