I feel so comfortable in my mill! This is exactly the little patch of earth I have been looking for, a fragrant, warm spot, a thousand hours away from newspapers, carriages, and fog! ... And what beautiful things surround me! I have barely been here for eight days, and already my head is full of impressions and memories... Let me tell you!

Alphonse Daudet's collection of stories "Letters from My Mill," published in 1869, is one of the most charming works of modern French literature and continues to shape our image of Provence and its inhabitants. Master Cornille's Secret, The Pope's Mule, The Curate of Cucugnan, The Three Low Masses, and many other stories continually find new enthusiastic readers and are now part of world literature. This edition features a new translation and a biographical afterword by Tanja Bädecker.

Alphonse Daudet (born 1840 in Nîmes) was one of the most productive and popular writers in France. In addition to numerous novels, plays, novellas, and short stories, he published "Lettres de mon moulin" in 1869, which is likely his most famous and beloved work. He died in 1897 in Paris.