The World's Greatest Books — Volume 03 — Fiction - John Alexander Hammerton

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 03 — Fiction

By John Alexander Hammerton

  • Release Date: 2004-01-19
  • Genre: History

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I remember my first visit to Tartarin of Tarascon as clearly as if it had been yesterday, though it is now more than a dozen years ago. When you had passed into his back garden, you would never have fancied yourself in France. Every tree and plant had been brought from foreign climes; he was such a fellow for collecting the curiosities of Nature, this wonderful Tartarin. His garden boasted, for instance, an example of the baobab, that giant of the vegetable world, but Tartarin's specimen was only big enough to occupy a mignonette pot. He was mightily proud of it, all the same.

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