A Paris wallpaper firm, two partners — one who works and one who charms — and the second partner's wife, who intends to be seen. Daudet came to Paris from Provence at seventeen and made his name with Tartarin; this 1874 novel won the Académie's prize and is his hardest, a study of how a business and a marriage are dismantled by one woman's appetite and one man's decency.

HARVARD CLASSICS - All 20 Volumes in one Edition gathers a sweeping canon of narrative art, tracing the evolution of fiction from the eighteenth-century novel of manners and picaresque experiment to nineteenth-century realism, romance, satire, and psychological inquiry. Its range embraces social comedy, Gothic intensity, historical romance, moral fable, regional sketch, and philosophical tale, with landmark works of domestic observation, imperial imagination, and modern consciousness place...

The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction—Complete 20 Volumes offers a sweeping conspectus of the modern novel and tale, tracing fiction's development from eighteenth-century satire and comic realism to psychological, historical, Gothic, romantic, and social forms. Its range extends from picaresque wit and domestic irony to supernatural terror, moral fable, realist portraiture, and expansive social critique, with landmark works such as novels of manners, historical romances, American sketches,...

The Harvard Fiction Classics in 20 Volumes represents a monumental collection encapsulating the profound shifts and stylistic developments in Western literature from the 18th to the early 20th century. Featuring a diverse array of seminal works by English, American, French, German, Russian, Spanish, and Scandinavian authors, this anthology showcases not only the evolutionary trajectory of narrative form but also the thematic richness exploring human condition, societal norms, and psycholog...

Santa's Christmas Library gathers more than four hundred seasonal narratives, poems, carols, legends, and illustrated selections into a capacious archive of Christmas writing. Moving from folktale and devotional verse to domestic realism, fantasy, satire, and moral fable, the volume traces the holiday's literary transformations across languages and centuries. Canonical Christmas narratives stand beside fairy tales, hymns, children's literature, and lesser-known period pieces, while such la...

e-artnow presents to you the greatest Christmas novels, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the unique poetry of the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry) The Holy Night (Selma Lagerlöf) A Merry Christmas & Other Christmas Stories (Louisa May Alcott) A Letter from Santa Claus (Mark Twain) Silent Night The Night After Christmas The Child Born at Bethlehem The Adoration of the Shepherds The Visit of the Wise Men As J...

The Santa's Great Treasure Chest gathers more than 450 Christmas novels, tales, carols, poems, and legends into an expansive archive of festive imagination. Moving between devotional verse, fairy tale, domestic realism, moral fable, comic vignette, ghostly wonder, and children's adventure, the volume traces Christmas as both sacred observance and secular cultural ritual. Familiar holiday narratives, carols, and folkloric retellings stand alongside less-circulated period pieces, making the ...

Collection of 10 Works of Alphonse DaudetFromont and Risler, v1Fromont and Risler, v2Fromont and Risler, v3Fromont and Risler, v4JackLetters from my WindmillTartarin de TarasconTartarin On The AlpsThe ImmortalThe Nabob

The original Harvard Classics Collection contains 51 volumes of the essential works of world literature, showing the progress of man from antics to modern age. In this edition, the original collection is supplemented with the 20 volume Harvard Shelf of Fiction, a selection of the greatest works of fiction. Content: The Harvard Classics: V. 1: Franklin, Woolman & Penn V. 2: Plato, Epictetus & Marcus Aurelius V. 3: Bacon, Milton, Browne V. 4: John Milton V. 5: R. W. Emerson V. 6: Robert Burn...

Letters from My Windmill (French: Lettres de mon moulin) is a collection of short stories by Alphonse Daudet first published in its entirety in 1869. Some of the stories had been published earlier in newspapers or journals such as Le Figaro and L'Evénement as early as 1865.The stories are all told by the author in the first person, typically addressing a Parisian reader. The author, having relocated his home from Paris, recounts short bucolic tales about his new life in Provence as...

Down the Chimney gathers more than a hundred Christmas narratives into an unusually capacious map of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century holiday literature. Fairy tale, domestic sketch, moral fable, realist vignette, comic anecdote, supernatural tale, and children's fantasy converge around winter's rituals of generosity, memory, hospitality, and renewal. Illustrated and transnational in scope, the volume moves from hearth-centered sentiment to darker meditations on poverty, estrangemen...

The Big Christmas Basket gathers more than two hundred illustrated novels, tales, poems, and carols into a capacious archive of Christmas writing. Its range extends from devotional lyric and traditional seasonal song to domestic realism, fairy tale, comic anecdote, moral fable, ghostly fantasy, and cosmopolitan short fiction. Canonical Victorian and Romantic modes meet children's literature, American regionalism, and European storytelling, making the volume a vivid record of how Christmas ...