Tartarin of Tarascon

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Tartarin of Tarascon
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Literature

Tartarin of Tarascon

Alphonse Daudet
Edition year 1968
Binding Cloth
Illustrator M. Lin-Desportes
Translator J.M. Cohen
Weight 1 Kg
Pages 120
Dimensions 20.9 × 14.6 cm

Edition details

Tartarin of Tarascon by Alphonse Daudet. Translated by J.M. Cohen. 7 lithographs by M. Lin-Desportes. Bound in orange cloth with a frieze design in black by John Lawrence. Yellow endleaves. Grey slipcase. 20.9x14.6cm. 120pp.

About the book

Alphonse Daudet's Tartarin of Tarascon is a comic novel about a boastful and enthusiastic provincial Frenchman whose imagination far exceeds his actual experience. Tartarin dreams of great adventures and heroic exploits, although much of his reputation is based on stories rather than genuine achievement. Determined to prove himself, he eventually travels to North Africa in search of lions and adventure. Daudet uses Tartarin's misadventures to satirise vanity, romantic fantasy and the tendency to exaggerate one's own importance, creating a warm and highly entertaining comic portrait.

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