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Alphonse Daudet

 

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Alphonse Daudet : [novels]

'I think very highly of Daudet as a novelist, but I know nothing of him personally.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant      Print: Book

  

Alphonse Daudet : 

"I finished Daudet who is stupid & took to Plato who is first rate for sleeping purposes. I can just puzzle it out enough to get muddled."

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen      Print: Book

  

Alphonse Daudet : Sapho

19 June 1884: Henry James writes (in French) to Alphonse Daudet about having read and enjoyed Daudet's Sapho.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James      Print: Book

  

Alphonse Daudet : Petite Paroisse

Henry James writes (in French) on 12 February 1895 to Alphonse Daudet, on having read and enjoyed Daudet's new novel [Petite Paroisse], sent to him by Daudet, and re-read (in each case for the third time) the same author's Sapho and L'Immortel.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James      Print: Book

  

Alphonse Daudet : Sapho

Henry James writes (in French) on 12 February 1895 to Alphonse Daudet, on having read and enjoyed Daudet's new novel [Petite Paroisse], sent to him by Daudet, and re-read (in each case for the third time) the same author's Sapho and L'Immortel.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James      Print: Book

  

Alphonse Daudet : L'Immortel

Henry James writes (in French) on 12 February 1895 to Alphonse Daudet, on having read and enjoyed Daudet's new novel [Petite Paroisse], sent to him by Daudet, and re-read (in each case for the third time) the same author's Sapho and L'Immortel.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James      Print: Book

  

Alphonse Daudet : article on death of Edmond de Goncourt

Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 28 August 1896: 'The only thing that befell me [on recent week in London, from 15 August] was that I dined one night at the Savoy with F. Ortmans and the P. Bourgets [...] The only other thing I did was to read in the "Revue de Paris" of the 15th August the wonderful article of A. Daudet on Goncourt's death [...]'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James      Print: Serial / periodical

  

Alphonse Daudet : Tartarin sur les Alpes

'I will not tell you my exact state of health day by day, but will give you a diary of my reading, which is perhaps a good index of my physical state. Friday morning. Full of buck. "Tartarin sur les Alpes". Friday afternoon. Wanted soothing. "Letters from a Silent Study". Saturday morning. Very depressed. "Pickwick Papers". Saturday afternoon. A little better. "Esmond". Sunday morning. Quite well thank you! "Butler's Analogy". Sunday afternoon. Quite well thank you! "Esmond and Stonewall Jackson". As a guide I may point out that "Pickwick" cheers me up when I am most depressed, while "Butler's Analogy" taxes all my strength.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Donald William Alers Hankey      Print: Book

  

Alphonse Daudet : Tartarin sur les Alpes

'Sunday, 28th March, Discussion Group ? annual meeting. Read ? ?Tartarin sur les Alpes? (Daudet).'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Alphonse Daudet : [unknown]

'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time, for he continued to read widely in both French and German, as well as English. During the eighteen-eighties, he re-read George Sand and much of Balzac; read Zola for the first time; purchased cheap German editions of Turgenev and read them all; was famiiar with Daudet, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and later de Maupassant; and read Ibsen as his work became available and in the late eighties saw his plays when they were performed for the first time in London'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

 

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