Alphonse Daudet
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Alphonse Daudet was born in Nimes in 1840. He made his name with gentle stories and novels portraying life in the French provinces, notably Lettres de mon Moulin (1869). He died in 1897. His extraordinary notebooks detailing the effects of syphilis on his life were first published under the title In the Land of Pain by Daudet's widow in 1931. The first English translation by Julian Barnes was published by Cape in 2002.
Books by Alphonse Daudet
In the Land of Pain
Daudet's fascinating notebook, revived and translated by Julian Barnes.