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Letters from My Windmill

Alphonse Daudet

Letters from My Windmill

Paper book: €23.99

Digital: €8.99

Original publication
1869
Pages
395
Difficulty
Medium
Genres
Humor, Travel Writing
Moods
Feel comforted, Savour the writing, Have a laugh
Translated from
French

Book summary

Settled in an old windmill in Provence, Daudet writes to his Parisian readers with stories from the region. We meet Monsieur Seguin's goat, who dreams of freedom in the mountains, the priest of Cucugnan, who makes his parishioners tremble with a sermon about hell, and Father Gaucher, whose elixir makes his monastery's fortune.

Part farce, part legend, part melancholy, these tales are known to generations of children, and you can feel the sun and the mistral on every page.

Short and written in a simple, musical style, they can be read one by one in the language you are learning.

The plot

An old miller, a mule and a monk. A flour factory has put the local windmills out of business. Only the mill of old miller Cornille still turns. Yet no one brings him any wheat.

The world of the book

Shepherds and windmills of Provence. The narrator settles into an old windmill on a hill in Provence, in the south of France. From there, he writes to his readers in Paris.

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