Paris Metro Tales

Author:   Helen Constantine ,  Helen Constantine
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780199579808


Pages:   336
Publication Date:   24 March 2011
Format:   Paperback
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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 Hebuterne.Gerard de Nerval evokes the thriving, bustling market in Les Halles in the 1850s; Colette recounts her involvement in a traffic accident near the Opera; Boulanger describes a blackly funny experience in Pere 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.

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Author:   Helen Constantine ,  Helen Constantine
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 12.50cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 19.30cm
Weight:   0.357kg
ISBN:  

9780199579808


ISBN 10:   0199579806
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   24 March 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us.

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more than a collection of stories. It is an evocation of a millieu The Tablet a richly varied collection of stories that will inspire a mix of thoughts and emotions Bookgeeks.co.uk Constantine is an excellent translator Time Out brilliant anthology Conde Nast Traveller


brilliant anthology * Conde Nast Traveller * Constantine is an excellent translator * Time Out * a richly varied collection of stories that will inspire a mix of thoughts and emotions * Bookgeeks.co.uk * more than a collection of stories. It is an evocation of a millieu * The Tablet *


Constantine is an excellent translator Time Out brilliant anthology Conde Nast Traveller


brilliant anthology Conde Nast Traveller


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Helen Constantine taught languages in schools until 2000, when she became a full-time translator. She has published two volumes of translated stories, Paris Tales and French Tales, and is currently editing a series of City Tales for Oxford University Press. She has translated Mademoiselle de Maupin by Théophile Gautier and Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos for Penguin. She is married to the writer David Constantine and with him edits the international magazine Modern Poetry in Translation.

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