Paris Stories (Everyman's Pocket Classics)

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Paris Stories (Everyman's Pocket Classics)

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
Binding	Hardcover
EAN	9781101907566
ISBN	1101907568
Label	Everyman's Library
Manufacturer	Everyman's Library
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	416
PublicationDate	2016-03-01
Publisher	Everyman's Library
ReleaseDate	2016-03-01
Studio	Everyman's Library

Paris Stories (Everyman's Pocket Classics)

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