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Caesar's Vast Ghost: Aspects of Provence by
Durrell, a thirty year resident of Provence, offers a guidebook, a writer's journal, and a letter to prosperity, capturing the essential spirit of the area and its array of human history through the centuries.
The Memoirs of Frédéric Mistral by
Frédéric Mistral (1830-1914) was the greatest modern Provençal poet and the foremost champion of his native Provence. For this achievement and for his own poetry, Mistral was awarded the Nobel prize in 1904--characteristically, he gave the prize money to a folklore museum he had founded in Arles. Written in the relaxed conversational style of an elderly gentleman reminiscing about the old days, the Memoirs describe the circumstances of Mistral's childhood and early manhood - the Provençal landscapes, the seasonal life of the farm, the religious observances and seasonal festivities, many clearly of pagan origin. This illustrated edition includes the original texts of Provençal songs and verse, with Professor Wickes' English versions printed en face.
A Window on Provence: one summer's sojourn into the simple life by 