Tartarin de Tarascon

by Alphonse Daudet

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

A definitive edition of the works of Daudet has been published by Houssiaux, in octavo, 1899 ff. (18 volumes). Convenient editions of most of them are published by Flammarion, Lemerre, Fasquelle, and others.

The best sources for the study of Daudet's life and works are his Trente Ans de Paris, Souvenirs d'un homme de lettres, Notes sur la vie (Paris, 1899), his brother Ernest's Mon Frère et moi (Paris, 1882), and his son Léon's Alphonse Daudet (Paris, 1898).

The following may also be consulted:

J. BRIVOIS, Essai de bibliographie des oeuvres de M. Alphonse Daudet, Paris, 1895.
H. CÉARD, introduction to the definitive edition.
B. DIEDERICH, Alphonse Daudet, Berlin, 1900.
R. DOUMIC, in Portraits d'écrivains and Études sur la littérature française, Vol. III.
HENRY JAMES, in Partial Portraits.
J. LEMAÎTRE, in Les Contemporains, Vol. II.
R. H. SHERARD, Alphonse Daudet, London, 1894.
B. W. WELLS, in A Century of French Fiction, New York, 1903.
E. ZOLA, in Les Romanciers naturalistes.

The illustrations in the following articles are of interest:

J. A. HAMMERTON, "The Town of Tartarin," in The Critic, vol. 47, pp 317 ff.
A. B. MAURICE, "The Trail of Tartarin," in The Bookman, vol. 14, pp. 128 ff.; vol. 15, pp. 520 ff.

WORKS OF ALPHONSE DAUDET

POEMS, NOVELS, TALES, AND SKETCHES

Les Amoureuses, poèmes et fantaisies (including La Double Conversion, Le Roman
du Chaperon rouge, and other poems) 1857-1861.
Le Petit Chose, 1868.
Lettres de mon moulin, 1869.
Lettres à un absent, 1871.
Aventures prodigieuses de Tartarin de Tarascon, 1872.
Contes du lundi, 1873.
Les Femmes d'artistes, première série (not continued), 1874.
Fromont jeune et Risler aîné, 1874.
Robert Helmont, 1874.
Jack, 1876.
Le Nabab, 1877.
Les Rois en exil, 1879.
Numa Roumestan, 1881.
L'Évangéliste, 1883.
Sapho, 1884.
Tartarin sur les Alpes, 1885.
La Belle Nivernaise, 1886.
La Défense de Tarascon, 1886.
Trente Ans de Paris, 1888.
L'Immortel, 1888.
Souvenirs d'un homme de lettres, 1888.
Port Tarascon, 1890.
Rosé et Ninette, 1892.
Entre les frises et la rampe, 1894.
La Petite Paroisse, 1895.
La Fédor, 1897.
Le Trésor d'Arlatan, 1897.
Soutien de famille, 1898.
Notes sur la vie, publié par Mme A. Daudet, 1899.

PLAYS

La Dernière Idole, 1862 (with E. L'Épine).
Les Absents, 1864.
L'oeillet blanc, 1865 (with E. Manuel).
Le Frère aîné, 1867 (with E. Manuel).
Le Sacrifice, 1869.
Lise Tavernier, 1872.
L'Arlésienne, 1872.
Fromont jeune et Risler aîné, 1876 (with A. Belot).
Le Char, 1878 (with P. Arène).
Le Nabab, 1880 (with P. Elzéar).
Jack, 1881 (with H. Lafontaine).
Sapho, 1885 (with A. Belot).
Numa Roumestan, 1887.
La Lutte pour la vie, 1889 (taken from "L'Immortel").
l'Obstacle, 1890.
La Menteuse, 1892 (with L. Hennique).

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