Alphonse Daudet Libros

Tartarín de Tarascón, el mitómano y fantasioso Tartarín, usando y aun abusando de los efectos que el espejismo produce en los calenturientos cerebros de los tarasconeses, se ha ganado fama de intrépido aventurero y hasta de audaz vapuleador de bandoleros chinos en Shangai. Pero un día el espejismo deja de funcionar y Tartarín se ve obligado a marchar a tierras argelinas a la caza de leones inexistentes. Las aventuras africanas de Tartarín, con su dosis de humor, ironía e incluso sátira del régimen colonial, mantienen el interés del lector en todo momento, que se encariña con este héroe en zapatillas, una estupenda aleación provenzal de don Quijote y Sancho.

Safo es la historia de unos amores crueles. La vida de un joven diplomático deshecha por la maldad de un criatura de los bajos fondos parisienses. Historia eterna de aquel que ama y no es amado.

Set against the backdrop of maritime life, this classic tale follows an old boat and its crew, exploring themes of adventure and camaraderie. The narrative captures the essence of human history and the significance of preserving such stories. The modern republication by Alpha Editions ensures that the text is clear and accessible for contemporary readers, offering a refreshed format while honoring the original work. This effort highlights the importance of keeping literary treasures alive for future generations.

The book has historical significance and has been out of print for many years. To ensure its preservation and accessibility, it has been meticulously reformatted and retyped into a modern format, making it clear and readable for current and future readers. This effort highlights the importance of keeping valuable works alive in contemporary times.

This complete edition of Alphonse Daudet's classic offers readers an immersive experience into the author's rich storytelling and vivid characterizations. The work captures the essence of 19th-century French society, exploring themes of love, loss, and the complexities of human emotions. Daudet's masterful prose invites readers to delve into the intricacies of his characters' lives, reflecting the beauty and struggles of their world. A must-read for those interested in classic literature and historical narratives.

"Nothing could be more shocking to Jean Gaussin, a serious young student from the provinces, than the moral swamp his mistress has been living in before they met. Sculptor's model, poet's muse, Fanny Legrand has seen and done it all in the twenty years since her first lover, Caoudal, cast in bronze the girl from the Paris gutter and named her Sappho. But revulsion is no match for lust; and little by little, despite continual outbreaks of rage and jealousy, Jean is able to live with Fanny's disgraceful past, to find a certain pleasure in the degraded domesticity of their life together and even to feel a degree of pride in his new connections with famous men. The arrival on the scene of a marriageable young girl seems to offer Jean the escape route he needs: but he cannot bring himself to deal his aging mistress a potentially fatal blow.'--

As Julian Barnes writes in the introduction to his superb translation of Alphonse Daudet’s La Doulou, the mostly forgotten writer nowadays “ate at the top literary table” during his lifetime (1840–1897). Henry James described him as “the happiest novelist” and “the most charming story-teller” of his day. Yet if Daudet dined in the highest company, he was also “a member of a less enviable nineteenth-century French that of literary syphilitics.” In the Land of Pain —notes toward a book never written—is his timelessly resonant response to the disease.In quick, sharp, unflinching strokes of his pen, Daudet wrote about his symptoms (“This is the one-man-band of pain”) and his treatments (“Mor-phine nights . . . thick black waves, sleepless on the surface of life, the void beneath”); about his fears and reflections (“Pain, you must be everything for me. Let me find in you all those foreign lands you will not let me visit. Be my philosophy, be my science”); his impressions of the patients, himself included, and their strange life at curative baths and spas (“Russians, both men and women, go into the baths naked . . . Alarm among the Southerners”); and about the “clever way in which death cuts us down, but makes it look like just a thinning-out.”Given Barnes’s crystalline translation, these notes comprise a record—at once shattering and lighthearted, haunting and beguiling—of both the banal and the transformative experience of physical suffering, and a testament to the complex resiliency of the human spirit.

The book is a facsimile reprint of an original antiquarian work, reflecting its historical significance. It may exhibit imperfections typical of aged texts, including marks and notations. The publisher emphasizes its cultural importance and commitment to preserving literature by offering it in an affordable, high-quality edition that remains faithful to the original.