Audiobooks by Alphonse Daudet

Héros de la petite ville de Tarascon, Tartarin ne rêve que d'aventure et de chasse au lion. Mais que l'Afrique est loin pour qui n'a jamais quitté sa maison ! L'intrépide chasseur s'embarque enfin : parviendra-t-il à débusquer un fauve du désert ? Personnage burlesque mais si attachant, Tartarin est le type même du Méridional hâbleur qui se dupe lui-même autant qu'il dupe les autres. Où se rejoignent cocasserie et vérité, mais 'une vérité d'outre-Loire qui enfle, exagère, ne ment jamais, et tarasconne tout le temps'. Sans jamais se départir d'une réelle tendresse pour son personnage, Daudet a déployé dans Tartarin de Tarascon toutes les ressources de sa verve et de son ironie, créant ainsi l'un des plus grands types comiques de la littérature française.

Alphonse Daudet (Author), Ezwa (Narrator)

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A Very French Christmas: The Greatest French Holiday Stories of All Time

A continuation of the popular Very Christmas Series, this collection brings together the best French Christmas stories of all time in an elegant and vibrant collection featuring classics by Guy de Maupassant and Alphonse Daudet, plus stories by the esteemed twentieth-century author Irène Némirovsky and contemporary writers Dominique Fabre and Jean-Philippe Blondel.With a holiday spirit conveyed through sparkling Paris streets, opulent feasts, wandering orphans, kindly monks, homesick soldiers, oysters, crayfish, ham, bonbons, flickering desire, and more than a little wine, this collection encapsulates the holiday spirit. This is Christmas à la française-delicious, intense and unexpected, proving that nobody does Christmas like the French.

Alphonse Daudet, Guy De Maupassant, Guy de Maupassant, Various (Author), Jean Brassard (Narrator)

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The Pope's Mule

Alphonse Daudet (Author), Cathy Dobson (Narrator)

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The Reverend Father Gaucher's Elixir

Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897) was one of France's finest storytellers. The Reverend Father Gaucher's Elixir is set in a dilapidated monastery in Provence. The order has fallen on hard times and the future of the entire monastery is in jeopardy. But the order's simpleton cow-herd, Brother Gaucher, has an unexpected idea. His old Auntie Bégon had in her later years invented a marvellous herbal elixir. By producing, bottling, and selling this, Brother Gaucher believes the order can become as rich as the Trappists and the monks of Chartreuse. The Prior is enthusiastic and Brother Gaucher sets to work, and before long the whole monastery is thriving. Brother Gaucher - now elevated to Father Gaucher - works alone and in secret in his distillery producing the wonderful and sought-after brew. But it is not long before Father Gaucher starts behaving very oddly...and his madness threatens to destabilize the whole monastery....

Alphonse Daudet (Author), Cathy Dobson (Narrator)

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The Siege of Berlin

The year is 1870. The elderly Colonel Jouve has suffered a medical collapse and is confined to his bed. It is uncertain whether or not he will pull through. His granddaughter takes over his care. Then one day, news reaches Paris of military successes in the war against Prussia. Colonel Jouve senses the optimism in the air and his health begins to improve. Almost immediately further news reaches Paris. The previous news was wrong - in fact the French are being beaten back. Colonel Jouve's son has been taken prisoner. The Prussians are marching on Paris. Fearful that this news will prove the death-blow to Colonel Jouve, his granddaughter, with the complicity of the doctor, decides to create the illusion that the French are winning the war. But the Colonel demands constant details. Where are battles being fought? What route are the French regiments taking on their advance towards Berlin? News bulletins and letters must be faked in order to deceive the old invalid. White bread and meat must be procured for him...for he must not guess that it is Paris itself that is besieged and not Berlin. But then finally the day arrives when the Prussians enter Paris and parade down the Champs Elyssées....

Alphonse Daudet (Author), Cathy Dobson (Narrator)

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Tartarin de Tarascon

Tartarin de Tarascon est un roman d'Alphonse Daudet écrit en 1872. Il décrit les aventures burlesques de Tartarin, chef putatif des chasseurs de casquettes de Tarascon, allant chasser le lion en Algérie. C'est un héros naïf, qui se laisse berner par des personnages peu scrupuleux, voire par lui-même tout au long de son voyage vers l'Atlas. Cette histoire fut inspirée à Daudet par son cousin Henri Reynaud, qui lui racontait ses voyages lors de ses retours d'Afrique.

Alphonse Daudet (Author), Fernandel (Narrator)

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Fromont and Risler

The term ’shameless hussy’ could have been invented to describe the main protagonist of Daudets first international bestseller. There are more vulgar epithets one could apply to ‘Little Chebe’ as she schemes her way up the ladder to reach social equality with her neighbour Claire Fromont, the daughter of the owner of the factory which she studies enviously during her nightly vigils.Fortune favours the wicked as she collects, manipulates and breaks the hearts of all men within her compass to achieve her goal.Daudet suggests that the working conditions and general lack of morality within the environs of Paris contribute to this catastrophe and at the tragic end he makes the point bluntly but nevertheless there are few women in literature with less moral scruple than Shiffonye and the last cruel act of revenge is inspired by the devil.The author had a very unhappy childhood, his father was a bankrupt and in his early career he was mentored by Emile Zola and the Goncourt brothers. His work has the same graphic realism that illumines their novels and he adds the experience of his own traumatic early years to the story. It is a scorching tale and all the characters are either badly burnt or slightly singed by the flames of passion ignited by the Jezebel amongst them.

Alphonse Daudet (Author), Peter Joyce (Narrator)

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Les lettres de mon moulin

Alphonse Daudet (Author), Fernandel (Narrator)

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Short Stories: The Thinking Man's Collection

This fine collection of intelligent, unabridged short stories celebrating intriguing, interesting and sometimes inspirational men is an audio treat for young and old, male or female. A carefully compiled anthology featuring timeless tales from classic authors including Charles Dickens, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Anton Chekhov, read by a cast of acclaimed and respected authors, this compilation will be enjoyed by the whole family... for generations to come! STORY Listings: 1. Mr. Cosway and the Landlady - Wilkie Collins read by Rupert Degas 2. A School Story - M. R. James read by Martin Jarvis 3. The Poor Relation's Story - Charles Dickens read by Martin Jarvis 4. White Stockings - Edgar Wallace read by Jonathan Firth 5. The Music on the Hill - Saki read by Martin Jarvis 6. A Point of Detail - Sapper read by Jonathan Firth 7. On Cademuir Hill - John Buchan read by Iain Cuthbertson 8. Pat Hobby's Secret - F. Scott Fitzgerald read by Kerry Shale 9. My Cat Jeoffrey - Christopher Smart read by Richard Griffiths and Liza Goddard 10. The Fable of the Man with the Golden Brain - Alphonse Daudet read by Stephen Fry 11. Luck - Mark Twain read by Jonathan Firth 12.The Clock that Went Backward - Edward Page Mitchell read by Nicky Henson 13. The Dancing Partner - Jerome K Jerome read by Jonathan Firth 14. A Day in the Country - Anton Chekhov read by Martin Jarvis.

Alphonse Daudet, Anton Chekhov, Charles Dickens, Christopher Smart, Edgar Wallace, Edward Page Mitchell, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jerome K Jerome, John Buchan, M. R. James, M.R. James, Mark Twain, Saki, Sapper, Various Authors, Wilkie Collins (Author), Iain Cuthbertson, Jonathan Firth, Kerry Shale, Liza Goddard, Martin Jarvis, Nicky Henson, Richard Griffiths, Rupert Degas, Stephen Fry, Various Readers (Narrator)

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Fry and Laurie Read Daudet and Jerome

Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie probably became best known for their numerous television appearances, particularly as Jeeves and Wooster and then together in their own comedy programmes Fry and Laurie and in Blackadder. Now Fry and Laurie have gone their separate ways, Stephen directing and starring in various film such as Wilde and Gosford Park and Laurie acting in films such as Stuart Little and more recently winning a Golden Globe best TV actor award for his performance as the irascible American Doctor Gregory House in the TV series of the same name, House. Now CSA Word brings them together again but as readers of a series of short stories, anecdotes, musings, light essays and fables written in the late 19th century by two authors who were never very prolific, but whose works have stood the test of time.

Alphonse Daudet (Author), Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry (Narrator)

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La chèvre de M. Seguin: Suivie de La dernière classe et La soupe au fromage

Qui ne se souvient pas du triste sort de la chèvre de M. Seguin, cette jeune et jolie chèvre qui décida un jour de s'évader de son enclos pour aller goûter les plaisirs de la liberté ? Pauvre chèvre, nous raconte Albert Millaire, car malgré les plaisirs et le joies que peut apporter la liberté, il semblerait qu'il y ait toujours un prix à payer ! Suivie de La derniére classe et de La soupe au fromage, La chèvre de M. Seguin d'Alphonse Daudet est un conte extraordinaire rempli d'espoir et de courage que petits et grands ne se lasseront pas d'écouter.

Alphonse Daudet (Author), Albert Millaire (Narrator)

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Арлезианка

Радиоспектакли 'Арлезианка' по одноименной пьесе Альфонса Доде. История трагичной любви скромного деревенского юноши Фредери к ветренной красавице арлезианке. Узнав об измене арлезианки юноша сходит с ума и, несмотря на попытки окружающих удержать его, кончает жизнь самоубийством. Радиопостановка. Автор инсценировки: Всеволод Аксенов Режиссер: Надежда Аксенова-арди , Петр Кулешов Действующие лица и исполнители: Франсэ Мамаи, фермер - Торстенсен Владимир; Роза, его жена - Коонен Алиса; Фредери, их старший сын - Карнович-Валуа Геннадий; Жанэ, их младший сын - Сверчков Владимир; Бальтазар, старый пастух - Незнамов Алексей; Виветта, девушка из соседней деревни - Аксенова-Арди Надежда; Патрон Марк, брат Розы - Чернышов Сергей; Экипаж, его слуга - Головин Владимир; Арлезианка - Матвеева Галина, (поют Мальцева Валерия, Андреева Елена); Митифье, ее возлюбленный - Мякишев Константин; Родриго, танцор - Абрамов Арамис; Мюшетта, служанка - Ларионова Евгения; Мари, служанка - Журавлева Наталья; От автора - Журавлев Дмитрий. Использованы фрагменты из 1-й и 2-й сюит Бизе Ж. “Арлезианка”. Исполняют: Русская республиканская хоровая капелла п/у Юрлова Александра, Оркестр Московской Государственной филармонии п/у Аносова Николая Запись 1961 г. © ИДДК

Alphonse Daudet (Author), Alisa Koonen, Gennady Karnovich-Valua, Vladimir Torstensen (Narrator)

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