Project Gutenberg 2004-02-01 Public domain in the USA. 52 Daudet, Alphonse 1840 1897 Daudet, Louis Marie Alphonse Tartarin sur les Alpes Reading ease score: 68.3 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. Produced by Carlo Traverso, Robert Rowe, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team "Tartarin sur les Alpes" by Alphonse Daudet is a comedic novel written in the late 19th century. The book centers around the character of Tartarin, a larger-than-life hero from Tarascon, as he embarks on a journey to the Swiss Alps, driven by ambition and fantasies of adventure. It explores themes of bravery, folly, and the intersection of imagination with reality, often highlighting the humorous discrepancies between the protagonist’s grand aspirations and his actual experiences. The opening of "Tartarin sur les Alpes" introduces us to Tartarin as he arrives at the Rigi-Kulm, a luxurious hotel perched atop the Alps. The scene is marked by an atmosphere of curiosity and spectacle as tourists gaze out at the swirling snow and mist. Tartarin himself is depicted in an exaggerated manner, appearing initially as a medieval archer before revealing his true nature as an affable but bumbling alpinist. His interactions with other hotel guests set a comically tense backdrop, with the dinner table split between factions as they eye each other's culinary choices, namely rice and prunes. This initial segment really establishes the book's satirical tone, showcasing Tartarin's uncanny ability to both charm and confound those around him, setting the stage for the adventures and misadventures that lie ahead. (This is an automatically generated summary.) fr Alps -- Fiction PQ Text FR Littérature Browsing: Literature Browsing: Travel & Geography Browsing: Fiction 360501 360367 2024-10-03T03:57:42.613129 2023-10-03T04:30:10.251011 text/html text/html 360494 360360 2024-10-03T03:57:42.892285 2023-10-03T04:30:10.440010 text/html text/html 212028 2024-10-03T03:57:50.781075 application/epub+zip 217431 2024-10-03T03:57:46.006087 application/epub+zip 208083 2024-10-03T03:57:44.773080 application/epub+zip 398307 2024-10-03T03:57:54.411025 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 377729 2024-10-03T03:57:50.022110 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 337112 2022-09-03T05:52:40.271074 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 326756 326673 2024-10-03T03:57:42.224095 2023-10-03T04:30:09.958990 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 314085 2020-12-28T14:40:32 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 128729 2020-12-28T14:40:32 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 19335 2024-10-03T03:57:54.533024 application/rdf+xml 14515 2024-10-03T03:57:45.314080 image/jpeg 4095 2024-10-03T03:57:45.044084 image/jpeg 209840 2024-10-03T03:57:42.925100 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia