Lettres de Mon Moulin (Dodo Press) (Paperback)

from Banoo

Reading this book is like taking a little vacation in southern France in the mid 1800's. Not a bad place or time to be. Daudet had the ability to make the countryside come alive in his pages. His descriptions of the environment and his surroundings were beautifully rendered. This is a book of obs...

from Banoo

Reading this book is like taking a little vacation in southern France in the mid 1800's. Not a bad place or time to be. Daudet had the ability to make the countryside come alive in his pages. His descriptions of the environment and his surroundings were beautifully rendered. This is a book of obs...

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Alphonse Daudet (1840-97) was one of the most popular French authors of the last decades of the 19th century. He was a peer of Emile Zola and read and appreciated by Charles Dickens and others. Today he is almost entirely forgotten. Soon after his death his work suffered some serious criticisms, ...

from Miguelnunonave

One of the first books I ever read in French. So, a youth book, very naïf but beautiful countryside descriptions and folk-tales style.

from Pepys

Exceptionally a review in English for a book I read in French, simply because I feel that Alphonse Daudet and his Lettres de mon moulin (Letters from My Windmill) should be better known abroad. I hadn't read them since, in my childhood, my mother read them to me while I was in bed, ready to sleep...