Overview

Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897) was a French novelist. He was the father of Leon Daudet and Lucien Daudet. After abandoning teaching, he lived in Paris, wrote poems, - shortly collected into a small volume Les Amoureuses (1858), which met with a fair reception - obtained employment on the Figaro, then under Cartier de Villemessant's energetic editorship, wrote two or three plays, and began to be recognized, among those interested in literature, as possessing individuality and promise. In 1866, Daudet's Lettres de Mon Moulin, written in Clamart, near Paris, and alluding to a windmill in Fontvieille, Provence, won the attention of many readers. The first of his longer books, Le Petit Chose (1868), did not, however, produce popular sensation. It is, in the main, the story of his own earlier years told with much grace and pathos. Henceforward his career was that of a very successful man of letters, publishing novel on novel, Le Nabab (1877), Les Rois en Exil (1879), Numa Roumestan (1881), Sappho (1884), and L'Immortel (1888).

ISBN-13

9781409904991

ISBN-10

1409904997

Weight

0.90 Pounds

Dimensions

6.00 x 0.75 x 9.00 In

List Price

$21.99

Format

Paperback

Pages

276 pages

Publisher

Dodo Pr

Published On

2009-01-01



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