Title: Tartarín de Tarascón
First published: 1883
Description: One of the great light-hearted French classics. The book tells the story of Tartarin, a Falstaff-like figure, full of hot-air and bluster, who is persuaded by the fellow residents of the provincial French town in which he lives to go on a lion-hunting expedition to Algeria. He blunders along from one disaster to the next, involving a foreign con-man, a lady of easy virtue, and a blind lion, but in the end he comes out of it all smelling of roses. It is best read in the original French.
Subjects: Fiction, general, Europe, fiction, French language, Readers, Book design, Books, Illustration of, Fiction, Literary, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), French fiction, Translations into English, Fiction in English, Translations from French, French literature, Classic Literature
Places: Alps
People: Klabund (1890-1928)
Time periods: Late 19th century