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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 metropolis’s teeming humanity; the Goncourt brothers chronicle its glittering literary circles; and Huysmans describes a memorable evening at the Folies Bergère. 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 Rhys’s lost heroines wander from café to café, James Baldwin celebrates the city’s sexual freedoms, and Raymond Queneau gleefully reinvents the language of the street. In more recent decades, Michel Tournier’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.

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Author:   Shaun Whiteside ,  Sean Whiteside ,  Shaun Whiteside ,  Shaun Whiteside
Publisher:   Random House USA Inc
Imprint:   Everyman's Library USA
Dimensions:   Width: 12.20cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 19.10cm
Weight:   0.431kg
ISBN:  

9781101907566

ISBN 10:   1101907568
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   01 March 2016
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

PREFACE   FRANÇOIS RABELAIS From Gargantua and Pantagruel (1534)   LAURENCE STERNE From A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy (1768)   RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE From Les Nuits de Paris (1792)   HONORÉ DE BALZAC From A Harlot High and Low (1838–47)   VICTOR HUGO From Les Misérables (1862)   GUSTAVE FLAUBERT From A Sentimental Education (1869)   EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT From Journals (1871)   ÉMILE ZOLA From L’Assommoir (1880)   GUY DE MAUPASSANT A Parisian Affair (1881)   VILLIERS DE L’ISLE-ADAM The Unknown Woman (1883)   J. K. HUYSMANS The Folies-Bergère (1880)   ALPHONSE ALLAIS The Polymyth (c. 1890)   COLETTE From Claudine in Paris (1901)   LOUIS ARAGON The Passage de l’Opéra (1926)   JEAN RHYS From Quartet (1928)   LOUIS-FERDINAND CÉLINE From Journey to the End of the Night (1932)   F. SCOTT FITZGERALD From Tender Is the Night (1934)   GEORGES SIMENON In the Rue Pigalle (1936)   DJUNA BARNES La Somnambule (1937)   BARRY MILES From The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Corso in Paris, 1957–63   JAMES BALDWIN From Giovanni’s Room (1956)   JULIO CORTÁZAR Blow-up (1959)   RAYMOND QUENEAU From Zazie (1959)   GEORGES PEREC From Things (1965)   RICHARD COBB Paris Xe (1980)   MICHEL TOURNIER From The Golden Droplet (1986)   PATRICK MODIANO From Flowers of Ruin (1991)   ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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SHAUN WHITESIDE is a translator of French, German, Italian, and Dutch works. He lives in London.

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