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French Tales

Helen Constantine
French Tales Book PDF

Author : Helen Constantine
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780191647536

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French Tales is a collection of twenty-two translated stories associated with the twenty-two regions of France. The book, which includes both well-known and little-known writers, for example Prosper Mérimée in the nineteenth century and Anne-Marie Garat in the twenty-first, affords readers a panoramic view of French society and culture, reflecting, as it does, its variety and diversity from Brittany to Corsica. Writers include among others Maupassant, Zola, Annie Saumont, Marcel Aymé, Didier Daeninckx and Stephane Émond. The subject-matter ranges from stories about marriage, the First World War and homelessness to house-buying, childhood and honour-killing. Following the model of Paris Tales, also translated by Helen Constantine, each story is illustrated with a striking photograph and there is a map indicating the position of the French regions. There is an introduction and notes to accompany the stories and a selection of Further Reading. The book will appeal to people who love travelling or are armchair travellers, as much as to those who love France and things French.

April on Paris Street

Anna Dowdall
April on Paris Street Book PDF

Author : Anna Dowdall
Publisher : Miroland
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1771836237

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April on Paris Street is about a young private investigator of half-Abenaki heritage who takes a case that looks like a damsel-in-distress rescue but that then turns into something completely different and much more dangerous. The narrative weaves working class Ashley Smeeton's personal story into the story of the privileged young woman whose husband hires her, within the frame of a layered mystery plot.

The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs

Elaine Sciolino
The Only Street in Paris Life on the Rue des Martyrs Book PDF

Author : Elaine Sciolino
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-02
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780393242386

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The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs by Elaine Sciolino Pdf

A New York Times Bestseller "Sciolino’s sharply observed account serves as a testament to…Paris—the city of light, of literature, of life itself." —The New Yorker Elaine Sciolino, the former Paris Bureau Chief of the New York Times, invites us on a tour of her favorite Parisian street, offering an homage to street life and the pleasures of Parisian living. "I can never be sad on the rue des Martyrs," Sciolino explains, as she celebrates the neighborhood’s rich history and vibrant lives. While many cities suffer from the leveling effects of globalization, the rue des Martyrs maintains its distinct allure. On this street, the patron saint of France was beheaded and the Jesuits took their first vows. It was here that Edgar Degas and Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted circus acrobats, Emile Zola situated a lesbian dinner club in his novel Nana, and François Truffaut filmed scenes from The 400 Blows. Sciolino reveals the charms and idiosyncrasies of this street and its longtime residents—the Tunisian greengrocer, the husband-and-wife cheesemongers, the showman who’s been running a transvestite cabaret for more than half a century, the owner of a 100-year-old bookstore, the woman who repairs eighteenth-century mercury barometers—bringing Paris alive in all of its unique majesty. The Only Street in Paris will make readers hungry for Paris, for cheese and wine, and for the kind of street life that is all too quickly disappearing.

Paris Street Tales

Helen Constantine
Paris Street Tales Book PDF

Author : Helen Constantine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780198736790

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Paris Street Tales contains eighteen newly translated stories related to particular streets in Paris, and one newly written tale, accompanied by evocative illustrations throughout. These stories range from the nineteenth century to the present day, and offer a vivid picture of Paris streets in a variety of literary styles and tones.

Busker

Nisha Coleman
Busker Book PDF

Author : Nisha Coleman
Publisher : Radiant Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Canadians
ISBN : 1926710371

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In 2005, Nisha travelled to France to be with what she hoped was the love of her life. Instead, she stayed three years, playing her violin and finding a new sense of passion for music and her own independence. A different kind of love story, Coleman allows the reader a rare glimpse into the world of a street violinist in Paris. Her journey features a mosaic of gypsies, homeless people, other buskers and random strangers -- a tale that transforms from initial hardship to ultimate triumph. This is the moving story of a young woman who went to Paris for love and found her life.

Paris Street Tales

Helen Constantine
Paris Street Tales Book PDF

Author : Helen Constantine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-18
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780191056482

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Paris Street Tales by Helen Constantine Pdf

Paris Street Tales is the third volume of a trilogy of translated stories set in Paris. The previous two are Paris Tales, in which each story is associated with one of the twenty arrondissements, and Paris Metro Tales, in which the twenty-two stories are related to a trip round the Paris Metro. This new volume contains eighteen newly translated stories related to particular streets in Paris, and one newly written tale of the city. The stories range from the nineteenth century to the present day, and include tales by well-known writers such as Colette, Maupassant, Didier Daeninckx, and Simenon, and less familiar names such as Francis Carco, Aurélie Filipetti, and Arnaud Baignot. They present a vivid picture of Paris streets in a variety of literary styles and tones. Simenon's Maigret is called upon to solve a mystery on the Boulevard Beaumarchais; a flâneur learns some French history through second-hand objects retrieved from the Seine; a nineteenth-century affair in the Rue de Miromesnil goes badly wrong; a body is discovered on the steps of the smallest street in Paris. Through these stories we see how the city has changed over the last two centuries and what has survived. All the tales in the book are translated apart from the last, a new story by David Constantine, based on the last days of the poet Gérard de Nerval.

Streets of Paris, Streets of Murder

Jacques Tardi,Jean-Patrick Manchette
Streets of Paris Streets of Murder Book PDF

Author : Jacques Tardi,Jean-Patrick Manchette
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781683962861

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Streets of Paris, Streets of Murder by Jacques Tardi,Jean-Patrick Manchette Pdf

The first of two volumes presenting all of the world-renowned hardboiled crime graphic novels (one of which has never before been collected in English!). In the never-before-collected Griffu, the titular character is a legal advisor, not a private eye, but even he knows that when a sultry blonde appears in his office after hours, he shouldn't trust her ― and she doesn't disappoint. Griffu is soon ensnared in a deadly web of sexual betrayal, real estate fraud, and murder. In West Coast Blues, a young sales executive goes to the aid of an accident victim, and finds himself sucked into a spiral of violence involving an exiled war criminal and two hired assassins. This volume also offers a bonus, 21-page unfinished story by Manchette and Tardi, as well as a single page introduction to another incomplete story, both appearing in English for the first time.

Paris Metro Tales

Helen Constantine
Paris Metro Tales Book PDF

Author : Helen Constantine
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-24
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780191624995

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Following on from Helen Constantine's hugely successful Paris Tales, the twenty-two short stories included in More Metro Tales take the reader on an fascinating journey around Paris by metro. The journey begins at the Gare du Nord, stops at twenty underground stations along the way, and ends at Lamarck-Caulaincourt. Some of these stories actually take place in the metro itself, but most are to be found when you emerge above ground. They range from the 15th-century account of the miraculous Saint Genevieve, patron saint of Paris, through tales by favourite writers such as Zola, Simenon, and Maupassant, to Martine Delerm's evocation of the last hours of Modigliani's mistress, Jeanne Hébuterne. Gérard de Nerval evokes the thriving, bustling market in Les Halles in the 1850s; Colette recounts her involvement in a traffic accident near the Opéra; Boulanger describes a blackly funny experience in Père Lachaise. Each story is illustrated with a black-and-white photograph and there is a map and suggested itinerary round the metro system. Readers will find familiar and unfamiliar writers here, but all are masterly writers of the short story and each evokes a different aspect of this endlessly intriguing and much-loved city, whether the traveller is on the metro or at home sitting in an armchair.

Paris by the Book

Liam Callanan
Paris by the Book Book PDF

Author : Liam Callanan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101986288

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER A missing person, a grieving family, a curious clue: a half-finished manuscript set in Paris Once a week, I chase men who are not my husband. . . . When eccentric novelist Robert Eady abruptly vanishes, he leaves behind his wife, Leah, their daughters, and, hidden in an unexpected spot, plane tickets to Paris. Hoping to uncover clues--and her husband--Leah sets off for France with her girls. Upon their arrival, she discovers an unfinished manuscript, one Robert had been writing without her knowledge . . . and that he had set in Paris. The Eady girls follow the path of the manuscript to a small, floundering English-language bookstore whose weary proprietor is eager to sell. Leah finds herself accepting the offer on the spot. As the family settles into their new Parisian life, they trace the literary paths of some beloved Parisian classics, including Madeline and The Red Balloon, hoping more clues arise. But a series of startling discoveries forces Leah to consider that she may not be ready for what solving this mystery might do to her family--and the Paris she thought she knew. Charming, haunting, and triumphant, Paris by the Book follows one woman's journey as she writes her own story, exploring the power of family and the magic that hides within the pages of a book.

The Streets of Paris

Susan Cahill
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Author : Susan Cahill
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781250130150

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From the author of Hidden Gardens of Paris, The Streets of Paris is Susan Cahill's wonderfully unique guide to present-day Paris following in the footsteps of famous Parisians through the last 800 years. For hundreds of years, the City of Light has set the stage for larger-than-life characters—from medieval lovers Héloïse and Abelard to the defiant King Henri IV to the brilliant scientist Madame Curie, beloved chanteuse Edith Piaf, and the writer Colette. In this beautifully illustrated book, Susan Cahill recounts the lives of twenty-two famous Parisians and then takes you through the seductive streets of Paris to the quartiers where they lived and worked: their homes, the scenes of their greatest triumphs and tragedies, their favorite cafes, bars, and restaurants, and the off-the-beaten-track places where they found inspiration and love. From Sainte-Chapelle on the Ile de la Cite to the cemetery Pere Lachaise to Montmartre and the Marais, Cahill not only brings to life the bold characters of a tumultuous history and the arts of painting, music, sculpture, film, and literature, she takes you on a relaxed walking tour in the footsteps of these celebrated Parisians. Each chapter opens with a beautiful four-color illustration by photographer Marion Ranoux, and every tour begins with a Metro stop and ends with a list of "Nearbys"—points of interest along the way, including cafes, gardens, squares, museums, bookstores, churches, and, of course, patisseries.

Paris Street Art

Romuald Stivine,Vito Del Forte
Paris Street Art Book PDF

Author : Romuald Stivine,Vito Del Forte
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Graffiti
ISBN : IND:30000124815527

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Next to New York and London, Paris has always been a major destination for street artists and aficionados. Multicultural and sophisticated, it is a city made for art of all kinds. Nowhere is he pulse of creativity more apparent than in its street art. Charged with color, humor, and social commentary, the 150 images captured in this book represent an open-air museum whose canvases are perpetually transformed. From the city center to the outer banlieues, from stencil and spray paint to stickers, this collection reveals the creative energy fueling the Paris underground art scene. AUTHOR Romuald Stivine is an art director and owner of the Lazy Dog bookshop and gallery in Paris. ILLUSTRATIONS 150 colour illustrations

Paris Stories

Mavis Gallant
Paris Stories Book PDF

Author : Mavis Gallant
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590174227

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A NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS ORIGINAL Mavis Gallant is a contemporary legend, a frequent contributor to The New Yorkerfor close to fifty years who has, in the words of The New York Times, "radically reshaped the short story for decade after decade." Michael Ondaatje's new selection of Gallant's work gathers some of the most memorable of her stories set in Europe and Paris, where Gallant has long lived. Mysterious, funny, insightful, and heartbreaking, these are tales of expatriates and exiles, wise children and straying saints. Together they compose a secret history, at once intimate and panoramic, of modern times.

Paris Stories

Shaun Whiteside
Paris Stories Book PDF

Author : Shaun Whiteside
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101907566

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Paris Stories gathers classic stories about the City of Light by a wide range of writers across four centuries. Perhaps no other European city has so captured the imagination of the artistically and romantically minded. Laurence Sterne explores the temptations of the French capital in a teasing study of foreign mores, and Restif de la Bretonne provides an eyewitness account of the horrors and glories of the French Revolution. Hugo, Balzac, Flaubert, and Zola offer fascinating portraits of the growing metropolis’s teeming humanity; the Goncourt brothers chronicle its glittering literary circles; and Huysmans describes a memorable evening at the Folies Bergère. Colette recounts the sensual adventures of a young girl in the decadent Paris of the early twentieth century, while F. Scott Fitzgerald revels in its urban glamour. Jean Rhys’s lost heroines wander from café to café, James Baldwin celebrates the city’s sexual freedoms, and Raymond Queneau gleefully reinvents the language of the street. In more recent decades, Michel Tournier’s North African immigrant walks a camel along the boulevards and Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano nostalgically maps the famed Parisian arrondissements. Theatrical and elegant, seamy and intellectual, Paris has never lost its alluring power, richly evoked in these compelling and seductive tales.

The Lost Art of Reading

David L. Ulin
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Author : David L. Ulin
Publisher : Sasquatch Books
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781570617218

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The Lost Art of Reading by David L. Ulin Pdf

Reading is a revolutionary act, an act of engagement in a culture that wants us to disengage. In The Lost Art of Reading, David L. Ulin asks a number of timely questions - why is literature important? What does it offer, especially now? Blending commentary with memoir, Ulin addresses the importance of the simple act of reading in an increasingly digital culture. Reading a book, flipping through hard pages, or shuffling them on screen - it doesn't matter. The key is the act of reading, and it's seriousness and depth. Ulin emphasizes the importance of reflection and pause allowed by stopping to read a book, and the accompanying focus required to let the mind run free in a world that is not one's own. Are we willing to risk our collective interest in contemplation, nuanced thinking, and empathy? Far from preaching to the choir, The Lost Art of Reading is a call to arms, or rather, to pages.

Paris in Stride

Jessie Kanelos Weiner,Sarah Moroz
Paris in Stride Book PDF

Author : Jessie Kanelos Weiner,Sarah Moroz
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-27
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780847861255

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Paris in Stride by Jessie Kanelos Weiner,Sarah Moroz Pdf

A local’s treasure map to the sites where Parisians know to go to be oh-so-Parisian. Finally, the “must-do, must-visit, must-see” travel list given to you by the Parisian friend you’ve been longing to have. Charmingly illustrated throughout, this practical guide will transport readers to the delightful sites and discoveries of Paris. Vibrant watercolors illustrate destinations including architectural marvels, gardens, historical highlights, cultural hubs, markets, food and wine favorites, and lots of little “je ne sais quoi’s” that make Paris so magical. Cultural musings, accessible histories, anecdotes, and informative details accompany the illustrations throughout, making this volume truly as practical as it is beautiful. The book features seven specially curated daylong walking tours. Winsome watercolor maps of the “promenades” with colorful icons of suggested sites guide readers through the romantic, winding Parisian streets, passing cafés, historical sights, small galleries, outdoor markets, and the kind of authentic and timeless places that one hopes to find when imagining the city. The careful artistry, insider’s musings, and approachable readability—both visually and texturally—in this book will delight and inspire tourists and armchair travelers alike.