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Tartarin of Tarascon illustrated
Alphonse Daudet
Tartarin of Tarascon illustrated
Alphonse Daudet
MY first visit to Tartarin of Tarascon has remained a never-to-be-forgotten date in my life; although quite ten or a dozen years ago, I remember it better than yesterday. At that time the intrepid Tartarin lived in the third house on the left as the town begins, on the Avignon road. A pretty little villa in the local style, with a front garden and a balcony behind, the walls glaringly white and the venetians very green; and always about the doorsteps a brood of little Savoyard shoe-blackguards playing hopscotch, or dozing in the broad sunshine with their heads pillowed on their boxes. Outwardly the dwelling had no remarkable features, and none would ever believe it the abode of a hero; but when you stepped inside, ye gods and little fishes! what a change! From turret to foundation-stone-I mean, from cellar to garret, -the whole building wore a heroic front; even so the garden!O that garden of Tartar in's! there's not its match in Europe! Not a native tree was there-not one flower of France; nothing hut exotic plants, gum-trees, gourds, cotton-woods, cocoa and cacao, mangoes, bananas, palms, a baobab, nopals, cacti, Barbary figs-well, you would believe yourself in the very midst of Central Africa, ten thousand leagues away. It is but fair to say that these were none of full growth; indeed,
Media | Boeken Paperback Book (Boek met zachte kaft en gelijmde rug) |
Vrijgegeven | 11 februari 2021 |
ISBN13 | 9798708063809 |
Uitgevers | Independently Published |
Pagina's | 134 |
Afmetingen | 140 × 216 × 7 mm · 163 g |
Taal en grammatica | Engels |
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