Tartarin on the Alps
Tartarin on the Alps by Alphonse Daudet, published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform in August 2015, is a literary work that immerses readers in a vivid narrative set against the backdrop of the Swiss Alps. This edition contains 76 pages and is presented in English. The story unfolds on the 10th of August, 1880, capturing a moment when a yellow fog and swirling snow envelop the summit of Rigi, creating a unique atmosphere for the tourists gathered at the grand hotel.
Readers will find a detailed depiction of the experiences of these tourists as they navigate the challenges of the alpine environment. The narrative explores themes of adventure and the allure of nature, as the characters await the promised beauty of their surroundings. With its focus on the interplay between the majestic landscape and the human experience, this book contributes to the genres of literature and fiction, particularly within the realm of classics.
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On the 10th of August, 1880, at that fabled hour of the setting sun so vaunted by the guide-books Joanne and Baedeker, an hermetic yellow fog, complicated with a flurry of snow in white spirals, enveloped the summit of the Rigi (Regina monhum) and its gigantic hotel, extraordinary to behold on the arid waste of those heights, -that Rigi-Kulm, glassed-in like a conservatory, massive as a citadel, where alight for a night and a day a flock of tourists, worshippers of the sun. While awaiting the second dinner-gong, the transient inmates of the vast and gorgeous caravansary, half frozen in their chambers above, or gasping on the divans of the reading-rooms in the damp heat of lighted furnaces, were gazing, in default of the promised splendours, at the whirling white atoms and the lighting of the great lamps on the portico, the double glasses of which were creaking in the wind
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