About the book: year / Not every author manages to create a literary character whose name will become a household name. The French writer Alphonse Daudet succeeded. The hero of his trilogy is Tartarin of Tarascon, a cowardly, boastful, indestructibly cheerful adventurer, who combined the features of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, and made Daudet famous throughout Europe. In the first book of the trilogy, the fearless Tartarin goes to Algeria to hunt lions..