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Coming Down the Seine

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"Four hundred miles from source to mouth - just twice the length of the Thames. There was scarcely a yard of it that I hadn't touched, from its first cress-bordered trickle to the board highways where cyclopean buttresses of chalk hold back the hills."One of the Europe's most celebrated rivers, the Seine stretches from the fertile plains of Burgundy to the English Channel at Le Havre. Starting at ... Read more

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"Four hundred miles from source to mouth - just twice the length of the Thames. There was scarcely a yard of it that I hadn't touched, from its first cress-bordered trickle to the board highways where cyclopean buttresses of chalk hold back the hills."One of the Europe's most celebrated rivers, the Seine stretches from the fertile plains of Burgundy to the English Channel at Le Havre. Starting at
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Life: A User's Manual

by Georges Perec ...

Translated by David Bellos ...

Series series Verba Mundi International Literature Series
The renowned French author's modern masterpiece: "one of the great novels of the century . . . on the level of Joyce, Proust, Mann, Kafka, and Nabokov" ( Boston Globe).Structured around a single moment in time—8:00 p.m. on June 23, 1975—Georges Perec's "elaborate jigsaw puzzle of a novel" begins in an apartment block in Paris where, chapter by chapter, room by room, a rich cast of characters is ... Read more

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The renowned French author's modern masterpiece: "one of the great novels of the century . . . on the level of Joyce, Proust, Mann, Kafka, and Nabokov" ( Boston Globe).Structured around a single moment in time—8:00 p.m. on June 23, 1975—Georges Perec's "elaborate jigsaw puzzle of a novel" begins in an apartment block in Paris where, chapter by chapter, room by room, a rich cast of characters is
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Shadows on the Rock

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This tale was published in 1931. Willa Cather's Shadows on the Rock tells the tale of a young girl, her widower father, and their friends, all of them working to make a life for themselves in Quebec in 1697. “Shadows on the Rock” is a historical novel which takes place between 1697 and 1713 in Quebec. For a number of years after the French first settled Quebec, it was an isolated, rocky settlement ... Read more

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This tale was published in 1931. Willa Cather's Shadows on the Rock tells the tale of a young girl, her widower father, and their friends, all of them working to make a life for themselves in Quebec in 1697. “Shadows on the Rock” is a historical novel which takes place between 1697 and 1713 in Quebec. For a number of years after the French first settled Quebec, it was an isolated, rocky settlement
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The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild

by Mathias Énard ...

Translated by Frank Wynne ...

From the winner of the Prix Goncourt, an exciting comic masterwork rooted in the French countryside.WINNER OF THE 2024 FRENCH-AMERICAN FOUNDATION TRANSLATION PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL TRANSLATION AWARD IN PROSETo research his thesis on contemporary agrarian life, anthropology student David Mazon moves from Paris to La Pierre-Saint-Christophe, a village in the marshlands of western ... Read more

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From the winner of the Prix Goncourt, an exciting comic masterwork rooted in the French countryside.WINNER OF THE 2024 FRENCH-AMERICAN FOUNDATION TRANSLATION PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL TRANSLATION AWARD IN PROSETo research his thesis on contemporary agrarian life, anthropology student David Mazon moves from Paris to La Pierre-Saint-Christophe, a village in the marshlands of western
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The Toilers of the Sea

by Victor Hugo ...

Translated by James Hogarth ...

Series series Modern Library Classics
A new translation by Scot James Hogarth for the first unabridged English edition of the novel, which tells the story of an illiterate fisherman from the Channel Islands who must free a ship that has run aground in order to win the hand of the woman he loves, a shipowner's daughter. ... Read more

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A new translation by Scot James Hogarth for the first unabridged English edition of the novel, which tells the story of an illiterate fisherman from the Channel Islands who must free a ship that has run aground in order to win the hand of the woman he loves, a shipowner's daughter.
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The Lawrence Durrell Travel Reader

by Lawrence Durrell ...

A collection of travel essays from the New York Times –bestselling author whose writing sparkles with "prose as luminous as the Mediterranean air he loves" ( Time ).Few men have traveled as wisely as Lawrence Durrell. Born in India, he lived in Corfu as a young man, enjoying salt air, cobalt water, and an unfettered bohemian lifestyle. Over the following decades, he rambled aroun... ... Read more

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A collection of travel essays from the New York Times –bestselling author whose writing sparkles with "prose as luminous as the Mediterranean air he loves" ( Time ).Few men have traveled as wisely as Lawrence Durrell. Born in India, he lived in Corfu as a young man, enjoying salt air, cobalt water, and an unfettered bohemian lifestyle. Over the following decades, he rambled aroun...
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Notes from the Cévennes

Half a Lifetime in Provincial France

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Adam Thorpe's home for the past 25 years has been an old house in the Cévennes, a wild range of mountains in southern France. Prior to this, in an ancient millhouse in the oxbow of a Cévenol river, he wrote the novel that would become the Booker Prize-nominated Ulverton, now a Vintage Classic.In more recent writing Thorpe has explored the Cévennes, drawing on the legends, history and above all the ... Read more

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Adam Thorpe's home for the past 25 years has been an old house in the Cévennes, a wild range of mountains in southern France. Prior to this, in an ancient millhouse in the oxbow of a Cévenol river, he wrote the novel that would become the Booker Prize-nominated Ulverton, now a Vintage Classic.In more recent writing Thorpe has explored the Cévennes, drawing on the legends, history and above all the
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An Inland Voyage

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This is Stevenson’s first book and a very enjoyable read. Stevenson and his friend Walter Simpson, known as Cigarette in the narrative, take a casual canoe trip through Belgium and France in 1876. ... Read more

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Célestine

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A "quietly remarkable book" about the romantic mystery surrounding a nineteenth-century woman reveals the vanished world of a provincial French community ( Scientific American ).Late on a summer afternoon in the heart of rural France, in a small, centuries-old house newly abandoned to its ghosts, Gillian Tindall came upon a cache of letters dating from the 1860s. Neatly folded and carefully tucked ... Read more

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A "quietly remarkable book" about the romantic mystery surrounding a nineteenth-century woman reveals the vanished world of a provincial French community ( Scientific American ).Late on a summer afternoon in the heart of rural France, in a small, centuries-old house newly abandoned to its ghosts, Gillian Tindall came upon a cache of letters dating from the 1860s. Neatly folded and carefully tucked
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A Simple Heart

by Gustave Flaubert ...

Translated by Charlotte Mandell ...

Series series The Art of the Novella
One single noise reached her ears now, the voice of the parrot.With an attention to the details of bourgeois life considered almost scandalous at the time, A Simple Heart will remind many why Gustave Flaubert was acclaimed as the first great master of realism. But this heart-breaking tale of a simple servant woman and her life-long search for love meant something else to Flaubert. Written near the ... Read more

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The Autobiography of Paul Poiret

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For half a century the housewives of Pont-l'Eveque had envied Madame Aubain her servant Felicite.For a hundred francs a year, she cooked and did the housework, washed, ironed, mended, harnessed the horse, fattened the poultry, made the butter and remained faitful to her mistress - although the latter was by no means an agreeable person.Seslendirmeler https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list ... Read more

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