false 51047 2 1 627374 2266156284 9782266156288 3 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176469515m/627374.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176469515s/627374.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/627374.Daudet_Lettres_de_Mon_Moulin 3.84 70 51047 3.71 256 20 1911 110988 0375414851 9780375414855 7 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171648009m/110988.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171648009s/110988.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/110988.In_the_Land_of_Pain 3.97 32 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 me: 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.]]> 51047 3.71 256 20 2002 135056 1406947288 9781406947281 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172054632m/135056.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172054632s/135056.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135056.Tartarin_of_Tarascon 3.41 29 51047 3.71 256 20 1911 1915472 2266087614 9782266087612 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190260794m/1915472.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190260794s/1915472.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1915472.Petit_Chose 3.50 28 51047 3.71 256 20 1947 3691120 2246200520 9782246200529 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3691120.Contes_du_lundi 3.78 9 51047 3.71 256 20 1873 1915468 2081660334 9782081660335 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190260791m/1915468.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190260791s/1915468.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1915468.La_Ch_vre_de_monsieur_Seguin 3.62 8 51047 3.71 256 20 1989 2179579 1434631346 9781434631343 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2179579.Sapho 4.00 7 51047 3.71 256 20 1988 616238 1904605737 9781904605737 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/616238.Fry_and_Laurie_Read_Daudet_and_Jerome 4.50 4 51047 3.71 256 20 3352 3.98 2232 392 10917 3.87 5554 720 25372 3.77 1753 378 2006 631036 0498040119 9780498040115 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/631036.Selected_Stories_of_Alphonse_Daudet 4.33 3 51047 3.71 256 20 1982 1811463 2258071828 9782258071827 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188666337m/1811463.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1188666337s/1811463.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1811463.Romans_r_cits_et_contes_Le_Petit_Chose_Tartarin_de_Tarascon_Tartarin_sur_les_Alpes_Port_Tarascon_Numa_Roumestan_Sapho_Lettres_de_mon_moulin_Le_Tr_sor_d_Arlatan_La_Doulou 5.00 2 51047 3.71 256 20 340728 4.40 5 0 2006