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Excerpt: ... with love reed -wick lam preserves of Chicago. cannot tear myself Nihilist to death condition abom in exchange for her You know me, Ferdi know my liberal ideas, but from there to tzaricide rrible consequences Siberia hung adore her Ah press thy loyal hand Tar Tar VIII. Memorable dialogue between the jungfrau and Tartarin. A nihilist salon. The duel with hunting-knives. Frightful nightmare, "Is it I you are seeking, messieurs?" Strange reception given by the hotel-keeper Meyer to show more the Tarasconese delegation. Like all the other choice hotels at Interlaken, the Hotel Jungfrau, kept by Meyer, is situated on the Hoheweg, a wide promenade between double rows of chestnut-trees that vaguely reminded Tar-tarin of the beloved Tour de Ville of his native town, minus the sun, the grasshoppers, and the dust; for during his week's sojourn at Interlaken the rain had never ceased to fall. He occupied a very fine chamber with a balcony on the first floor, and trimmed his beard in the morning before a little hand-glass hanging to the window, an old habit of his when travelling. The first object that daily struck his eyes beyond the fields of grass and corn, the nursery gardens, and an amphitheatre of solemn verdure in rising stages, was the Jungfrau, lifting from the clouds her summit, like a horn, white and pure with unbroken snow, to which was daily clinging a furtive ray of the still invisible rising sun. Then between the white and rosy Alp and the Alpinist a little dialogue took place regularly, which was not without its grandeur. "Tartarin, are you coming?" asked the Jung-frau sternly. "Here, here." replied the hero, his thumb under his nose and finishing his beard as fast as possible. Then he would hastily take down his ascensionist outfit and, swearing at himself, put it on. "Coquin de sort there's no name for it." But a soft voice rose, demure and clear among the myrtles in the border beneath his window. "Good-morning," said Sonia, as he appeared upon the... show lessTags
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French Fiction of the 18th and 19th Centuries in English Translation
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Novelist and short-story writer Alphonse Daudet was born on May 13, 1840 in Nimes, France. At the age of 14, he wrote his first novel. He worked as a teacher in Alais, a journalist in Paris, and as a private secretary for Duke de Morny from 1861 to 1865. He married fellow writer Julia Allard in 1867. He enlisted in the army during the show more Franco-Prussian war. He is primarily remembered for his sentimental tales of provincial life in the south of France. His novel Fromont the Younger and Risler the Elder won an award from the Academie Francaise. He died on December 16, 1897 in Paris. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Tartarin on the Alps
- Original title
- Aventures prodigieuses de Tartarin de Tarascon; Tartarin sur les Alpes
- Original publication date
- 1885; 1872 (Aventures prodigieuses de Tartarin de Tarascon) (Aventures prodigieuses de Tartarin de Tarascon); 1885 (Tartarin sur les Alpes) (Tartarin sur les Alpes)
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- On the 10th of August, 1880, at the fabled hour of sunset, so much belauded by Joanne's and Baedeker's Guide Books, a thick yellow fog, rendered more puzzling by a whirling snowstorm, enveloped the summit of the Rigi (Regina ... (show all)Montioum) and that immense hotel-which presents such an extraordinary appearance in the barren landscape of hills - the Rigi-Kulm, glazed like an observatory, massive as a citadel, wherein for a day and a night a crowd of sun-worshiping tourists is located.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)And then the meeting resumed.
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- French
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