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Alphonse Daudet was a highly popular nineteenth-century French
novelist, whose work radiated humour and good cheer. Few knew that
for his entire adult life he suffered from syphilis, a disease both
unmentionable and incurable at the time. What even fewer realised
was that he kept an intimate notebook in which he recorded the
development and terrifying effects of the disease. Describing a
life in pain, and the sometimes alarming treatments he underwent,
Daudet's journal is unique for its comic zest, lucid
self-examination and stoicism. Translated by the Booker
Prize-winning writer Julian Barnes.
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S Sappho (Paperback)
Alphonse Daudet; Translated by Graham Anderson
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Abel De Freydet
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Kings in Exile (Paperback)
Alphonse Daudet; Translated by Laura Ensor, E Bartow
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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.
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