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  • Caribbean Winter

    by Paul Morand, Mary Gallagher ...
    In 1927, Paul Morand a French diplomat and noted European author made two extended trips to the Caribbean, Latin America and the American South. Published in 1929, his travel account begins as a diary about his experience of Venezuela, Curaçao, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Haiti, Trinidad, Jamaica and Cuba and ends with a lengthy essay on Mexico. Morand was already a prolific, cosmopolitan writer but ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lewis and Irene: A Novel

    by Paul Morand ...
    The morning papers predicted mist with occasional showers from the Atlantic. In spite of this the morning presented a cloudless sky, though it had been a little late in producing it. The Paris sycamores persisted in their homage to the autumn; hardly were their leaves swept up than it had to be done again. "Fifteen and fifteen, thirty," went on Lewis, catching sight of a beautiful outward curling ... Read more

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  • The Man in a Hurry

    by Paul Morand ...
    Translated by Euan Cameron ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    Pierre ruins everything-friendships, love, fatherhood-in his headlong race against time. As he rushes through life, he fails to appreciate those things that are of true value-the tendernesses shown to him by his wife, Hedwige, the poetry of the world. He burns himself up, and burns up those around him, in a constant striving for goals that change as soon as he reaches them. Too late, he will ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Venices

    by Paul Morand ...
    Translated by Euan Cameron ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    "It is after experiencing life that I have returned here to think about myself."Paul Morand was a diplomat, traveller, socialite and one of the most erudite and original writers of the twentieth century. Venices is his typically unconventional autobiography: an evocative account of a remarkable life lived surrounded by the remarkable. Its poised, impressionistic, poetically vivid scenes add up ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Allure of Chanel (Illustrated)

    by Paul Morand ...
    Translated by Euan Cameron ...
    Paul Morand's last book, one of the most appealing of his oeuvre, brings together around the figure of Chanel, portraits of Misia Sert, Erik Satie, Serge Lifar, Georges Auric, Raymond Radiguet, Jean Cocteau, Picasso and Churchill, among others.Based on a series of intimate conversations between Morand and Coco Chanel, written in the great storyteller's marvellous prose, this book artfully sketches ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Tender Shoots

    by Paul Morand ...
    Translated by Euan Cameron, Euan Cameron ...
    Series series Pushkin Collection
    Composed before and during the first months of the First World War, Paul Morand did not publish these stories until 1921. Clarissa, Delphine and Aurora - three alluring and independent young women - are stories set largely in London, a city he loved and which continued to fascinate him long after he worked there as an attaché at the French embassy.Stylish, poetic and highly original, Morand's ... Read more

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  • The Allure of Chanel

    by Paul Morand ...
    Translated by Euan Cameron ...
    Series series Pushkin Press Classics
    With a foreword by Karl Lagerfeld, “this enchanting, tiny book”—a series of transcriptions from interviews with the fashion icon—is the closest anyone can get to a face-to-face with Coco [Chanel]” (The Spectator)Coco Chanel invited Paul Morand to visit her in St. Moritz at the end of the Second World War when he was given the opportunity to write her memoirs; his notes of their conversations were ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Dior by Dior: The Autobiography of Christian Dior

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    by Christian Dior ...
    Translated by Antonia Fraser ...
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    Translated by Richard Howard ...
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