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- In 1869, Alphonse Daudet published his collection of short stories entitled Letters from My Windmill.
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Alphonse Daudet was a French short-story writer and novelist, now remembered chiefly as the author of sentimental tales of provincial life in the south of France. Daudet was the son of a silk manufacturer. In 1849 his father had to sell his factory and move to Lyon. Alphonse wrote his first poems.
These, with the three Tartarins [3] –Tartarin de Tarascon, Tartarin sur les Alpes, Port-Tarascon–and the short stories, written for the most part before he had acquired fame and fortune, constitute his life work.
Alphonse Daudet (1840- 1 897) IT is not necessary to say that the task of selecting representative stories of Daudet is rendered difficult chiefly by the remarkable fecundity, variety, and sustained power of his genius. But while it is not necessary to say this, in saying it one really gives the best
One of his most famous short stories is “The Last Lesson,” which tells the story of a French schoolteacher in a small town who gives his final lesson in French to his students after the town has been taken over by the Germans during the Franco-Prussian War.
Alphonse Daudet, (born May 13, 1840, Nîmes, France—died Dec. 16, 1897, Paris), French short-story writer and novelist. Daudet wrote his first novel at age 14. Unable to finish his schooling after his parents lost all their money, he took a position in a duke’s household.
TITLE: Five short stories, by Alphonse Daudet. SERIES: The Harvard classics shelf of fiction, selected by Charles W. Eliot, with notes and introductions by William Allan Neilson. PUBLISHED: New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1917. PHYSICAL DETAILS: Vol. 13, Part 4, of 20; 21 cm. OTHER AUTHORS: Eliot, Charles William, 1834–1926 Neilson, William ...
(1840–97). Novelist, dramatist, and short-story writer Alphonse Daudet was a leading figure in the 19th-century school of French naturalism. This movement, according to author Émile Zola, intended to study the “human temperament and the profound modifications of the human organism under the pressures of environment and events.”
