Paris Stories (Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Series)

Paris Stories (Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Series)

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 metropolisâ€™s teeming humanity; the Goncourt brothers chronicle its glittering literary circles; and Huysmans describes a memorable evening at the Folies BergÃ¨re. 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 Rhysâ€™s lost heroines wander from cafÃ© to cafÃ©, James Baldwin celebrates the cityâ€™s sexual freedoms, and Raymond Queneau gleefully reinvents the language of the street. In more recent decades, Michel Tournierâ€™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.
Country USA
Brand Everyman's Library
Manufacturer Everyman's Library
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9781101907566
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2016-03-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781101907566

Country	USA
Brand	Everyman's Library
Manufacturer	Everyman's Library
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9781101907566
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2016-03-01
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781101907566

Paris Stories (Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Series)

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