Tartarín de Tarascón

About this book

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.

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• book design
• books
• classic literature
• continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
• europe, fiction
• fiction
• fiction, general
• fiction in english
• french fiction
• french language
• french literature
• illustration of
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• readers
• translations from french
• translations into english