FIRST VINTAGE CLASSICS EDITION, MARCH 2016
Translation, introduction, and notes copyright © 2002 by Julian Barnes
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Ltd., Toronto. This translation originally published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape, London, in 2002, and subsequently published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 2003.
This work is based on the unpublished notes of Alphonse Daudet.
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows: Daudet, Alphonse, 1840–1897.
[Doulou. English.] In the land of pain / Alphonse Daudet; edited and translated by Julian Barnes. — First American ed.
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I. Daudet, Alphonse, 1840–1897—Diaries.
II. Daudet, Alphonse, 1840–1897—Health.
III. Authors, French—19th century—Biography.
IV. Syphilis—Patients—France—Biography.
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Cover photograph of Alphonse Daudet, around 1860, by Nadar © The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
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