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  • Published: 1 April 1985
  • ISBN: 9780141914787
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224

Letters from My Windmill




Reissue in Black Classic for these wonderful tales from Provence

Alphonse Daudet's novels established him as the most successful writer in France by the end of the XIX century; but it was the LETTERS, first published in book form in 1869, which remained his favourite creation and has proved his most lasting.

Throughout his working life in Paris Daudet never lost his almost umbilical attachment to Provence. These tales of that region are characterised by a tenderness and delicacy, a wistfulness and wry humour, which give moving substance to his claim that to invent, for him, was to remember.

  • Published: 1 April 1985
  • ISBN: 9780141914787
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224

About the authors

Alphonse Daudet

Alphonse Daudet was born in Nimes in 1840. He made his name with gentle stories and novels portraying life in the French provinces, notably Lettres de mon Moulin (1869). He died in 1897. His extraordinary notebooks detailing the effects of syphilis on his life were first published under the title In the Land of Pain by Daudet's widow in 1931. The first English translation by Julian Barnes was published by Cape in 2002.