A boastful Provençal burgher, hungry for glory, sets off to hunt lions in the wilds of Algeria.
Books mentioned in Tartarin de Tarascon (1)
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes: “Three minutes later the boat reached land and Tartarin set foot on the little Barbary quay, where three hundred years earlier a galley-slave named Michael Cervantes, under the whip of an Algerian galley-master, had begun to plan the wonderful story of Don Quixote.”
Books that mention Tartarin de Tarascon (2)
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence: “After tea she stood hesitating at the bookshelf. He took "Tartarin de Tarascon".”
The Octopus by Frank Norris: “a well-dressed young man in a plaid travelling cap, whom Annixter had observed before supper time reading Daudet's “Tartarin” in the French.”