Tartarin of Tarascon

by Alphonse Daudet and (CLARENCE ROWE AND LEON D'EMO. ILLUSTRATED BY) MYRTLE VIOLET-SUNDEEN, M.A. , PAR ALPHONSE DAUDET

Book Overview

"They "; How Tartarin went round to his Club; The Two Tartarins; Tartarin - The Europeans at Shanghai - Commerce - The Tartars - Can Tartarin of Tarascon be an Impostor? - The Mirage; Mitaine's Menagerie - A Lion from the Atlas at Tarascon - A Solemn and Fearsome Confrontation; Singular effects of Mental Mirage; Before the Start; "Let's have it out with swords, gentlemen, not pins "; A memorable Dialogue in the little Baobab Villa; The Departure;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1516912179
• ISBN13: 9781516912179
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 46 Pages
• Weight: 0.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

The anti-Quixote

Just as Alonso Quijano went insane by so much reading of chivalry novels, Tartarin goes crazy from reading so many adventure novels. He comes to think he can accomplish whatever the heroes in the books have, and so decides to go to Africa to earn glory and honor. Just like Don Quixote, he is ill-equipped for the task, but that doesn't diminish his enthusiasm a bit. Tartarin wants to be a great hunter, so he goes to Algeria, where all he gets is to be robbed and kill a blind lion in a circus. Tartarin is a great character of world literature, a funny man with disparate ideas and neverending trust in success. There are several novels about him, and this is the first of the series. Hilarious and irritating, this man and his adventures will make you laugh and think about your dreams and how good it is you never tried to make them come true.

A true gem.

When it comes to discovering the spirit of Provence, never mind Peter Mayle, nor even the wonderful Marcel Pagnol. Alponse Daudet was responsible for bringing the exquisite subteleties of the Provencal character to the notice of Northern France as early as 1872. The novel is written with such hilarity, yet such sensitivity, that it makes you desperate to retell it to anyone who will listen. Simply hilarious!