Letters From My Windmill

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• Publisher: The Floating Press
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9781776527434
• Edition: 0

Have you ever fantasized about leaving big-city life behind and making a beeline for a bucolic village? That's exactly what Alphonse Daudet did, and he documents the results of his decision in the series of fictionalized sketches collected in Letters From My Windmill, in which he recounts his move from the hustle and bustle of Paris to the rustic life in a small village in Provence. The book is prized throughout France for its loving depiction of the virtues of rural life.

Table of contents

• Title
• Contents
• Foreword
• First Impressions
• The Coach from Beaucaire
• Master-Miller Cornille's Secret
• Monsieur Seguin's Last Kid Goat
• The Stars
• The Arlesienne
• The Pope's Mule
• The Lighthouse on the Sanguinaires
• The Wreck of the Semillante
• The Customs' Men
• The Cucugnanian Priest
• The Old Folks
• Prose Ballads
• Bixiou's Wallet
• The Man with the Golden Brain
• The Poet, Frederic Mistral
• The Three Low Masses
• The Oranges
• The Two Inns
• At Milianah
• The Locusts
• Father Gaucher's Elixir
• In the Camargue
• Nostalgia for the Barracks and Paris