Notoriety, faithfulness, gossip, love and style are Alphonse Daudet's subjects in these little-known stories about the strained relations between artists and their spouses. Daudet, known as the French Dickens, has an unerring eye for that eternal triangle—artist husband, model wife, and fickle ...

In Dresden, as in his earlier memoirs, First Childhood, A Distant Prospect, and The Chateau de Resenlieu-all published by Turtle Point Press with Helen Mark Books-Lord Gerald Hugh Tyrwitt-Wilson Berners shows the neat precision of style and wit that typifies his musica...