Delphi Complete Works of Alphonse Daudet

by Alphonse Daudet, Delphi Classics (Editor), Oliver C. Colt (Translator)

A master of French Naturalism, the nineteenth century novelist Alphonse Daudet is chiefly remembered today as the author of sentimental tales of provincial life in the south of France. Unlike his fellow Naturalists, Daudet upheld that the world in its diversity was misrepresented by novelists that concentrated only on its bleaker aspects. He is celebrated for his objective interest in external detail, as well as his compassionate personality and his reverence for the mystery of all things and individuals. Daudet tempers his satire with pity, drawing comparisons in style to the works of Dickens and Maupassant. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents Daudet’s complete fictional works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and bonus material. (Version 1)

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Daudet’s life and works
* Concise introductions to the novels and other texts
* All 16 novels, with individual contents tables
* Features many rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing
* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Rare short stories available in no other collection
* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories
* Easily locate the stories you want to read
* Includes a selection of Daudet’s rare non-fiction – available in no other collection
* Features the memoir penned by the author’s son – discover Daudet’s literary life
* Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres



The Tartarin Trilogy
Tartarin of Tarascon (1872)
Tartarin on the Alps (1885)
Port Tarascon (1890)

The Novels
Little What’s-His-Name (1868)
Artists’ Wives (1874)
Fromont and Risler (1874)
Jack (1876)
The Nabob (1877)
Kings in Exile (1879)
Numa Roumestan (1880)
The Evangelist (1883)
Sappho (1884)
The Immortal (1888)
Rose and Ninette (1892)
The Little Parish Church (1895)
The Support of the Family (1898)

The Shorter Fiction
Letters from My Mill (1869)
The Monday Tales (1873)
Robert Helmont (1874)
La Belle Nivernaise (1886)
The Siege of Berlin (1891)
Arlatan’s Treasure (1897)
La Fedor (1897)

The Short Stories
List of Short Stories in Chronological Order
List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order

The Non-Fiction
Letters to an Absent One (1871)
Between the Flies and the Footlights (1894)

The Memoir
Memoir (1898) by Léon Daudet

5193 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 3, 2021

About the author

Stories of life of French writer Alphonse Daudet of the naturalist school in his native Provence include Lettres de mon moulin (1869).

Louis Marie Alphonse Daudet authored novels. He was the younger brother of Ernest Daudet. He was married to Julia Daudet and the father of Léon Daudet, Lucien Daudet and Edmée Daudet, all writers.

Family on both sides belonged to the bourgeoisie. Vincent Daudet, the father, manufactured silk, but misfortune and failure dogged the man through life. A boyhood depressed Alphonse amid much truancy had. He spent his days mainly at Lyon, left in 1856, and began life as a schoolteacher at Alès, Gard, in the south. The position proved intolerable. As Charles Dickens declared that all through his prosperous career, the miseries of his apprenticeship to the blacking business haunted him in dreams, so after Daudet left Alès, he woke with horror, thinking for months that he still dwelt among his unruly pupils.

On 1 November 1857, he abandoned teaching and took refuge with Ernest Daudet, his brother only some three years his senior, who tried "soberly" to make a living as a journalist in Paris. Alphonse took to writing, and a small volume, Les Amoureuses (1858), collected his poems and met with a fair reception. He obtained employment on Le Figaro, then under energetic editorship of Cartier de Villemessant, and wrote two or three plays; those interested in literature began to recognize him as possessing individuality and promise. Morny, all-powerful minister of Napoleon III, appointed Daudet, who held a post of his secretaries till death of Morny in 1865, and Morny showed Daudet no small kindness. Daudet put his foot on the road to fortune.

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Reviews

[Nancy · Rating 5 out of 5]

by Alphonse Daudet


Finish date: 22.11.2024
Genre: 3 Xmas short stories (selected from complete works)
Rating: A
#Christmas Comfort Reads

Good News: Who would have guessed that the Devil would serve as an altar boy for Reverend Dom Balaguère at midnight Mass in the Castle Trinquelgue atop Mount Ventoux? Oh, what is the Devil up to? If you missed it Daudet's humor: he names the Devil after a famous French cyclist Garrigou...who rode up Mount Ventoux and won the Tour de France 1911.


Good News: You know the expression "Be careful what you wish for" ...well M. Majesté, merchant of Seltzer Water, wonders what his Paris Hôtel Particulier (...now serving as place of business) would be like if the mansion was filled 1600s merrimakers attending a Xmas supper (Le Réveillon) there. Enchanting...to go back in time!

Good News: Two friends are recovering from their 1870 war wounds. Bernadou is getting better but Salvette has lost the sprit to live. Bernadou helps his friend celebrate Christmas...even as he lay in his hospital bed.


Personal: Simple, short “good feeling” stories from one of France’s beloved writers, Alphonse Daudet. After a rough month of politics (November 2024) I want to end my reading days in November/December with a nice “good feeling” story. I want sugar plums dancing in my head!