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Author | : David Oates |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780870719813 |
"Living in Paris for a winter and a spring and waking each morning to a view of Notre Dame, David Oates is led to revise his life story from one of trudging and occasional woe into one punctuated by nourishing and sometimes unsettling brilliance. In The Mountains of Paris, he offers a technique of reimagining one's life story that might be available to anyone. The present tense of the book takes place during the seasons he spends in Paris, sharing an artist's residency. It is a rare opportunity to consider what it means to be human, through time-stopping moments with music, art, and deep history. The past tense of the book offers memories that intrude into the bustle of Paris life: a Billy Graham crusade at age thirteen, a mountain pass, a love, a loss. In long years of mountaineering Oates fought the self-loathing which had infused him as the gay kid in the Baptist pew. In The Mountains of Paris, he ascends to a place of wonder through intense, personal narrative encounter with the strangeness of being alive. In his searching, luminous, and inimitable prose, Oates invites readers to share the sense of awe awakened by a Vermeer painting, or the night sky, or the echoing strains of music fading down a Paris street, lifting the curtain on a cosmos filled with a terrifying yet beautiful rightness"--
Author | : Émile Zola |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 2023-12-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
The Belly of Paris (Le Ventre de Paris) is the third novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart, first published in 1873. It is a novel of the teeming life which surrounds the great central markets of Paris. The book was originally translated into English by Henry Vizetelly and published in 1888 under the title Fat and Thin. After Vizetelly's imprisonment for obscene libel the novel was one of those revised and expurgated by his son, Ernest Alfred Vizetelly. The heroine is Lisa Quenu, a daughter of Antoine Macquart. She has become prosperous, and with prosperity her selfishness has increased. Her brother-in-law Florent had escaped from penal servitude in Cayenne and lived for a short time in her house, but she became tired of his presence and ultimately denounced him to the police. Émile Zola (1840 – 1902) was a French writer, the most important exemplar of the literary school of naturalism and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in the political liberalization of France.
Author | : William Howard Adams |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1997-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780300082616 |
An illustrated study brings to life the atmosphere and personalities of pre-revolutionary Paris, traces their influence on the American envoy, and recounts his participation in the life of the city and its intrigues at court. UP.
Author | : Rene Daumal |
Publisher | : Exact Change |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2019-09-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781878972439 |
In this novel/allegory the narrator/author sets sail in the yacht Impossible to search for Mount Analogue, the geographically located, albeit hidden, peak that reaches inexorably toward heaven.
Author | : Bernard Debarbieux |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2015-09-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022603111X |
"From the Enlightenment to the present day, and using a variety of case studies from all the continents, the authors show us how our ideas of and about mountains have changed with the times and how a wide range of policies, from border delineation to forestry as well as nature protection and social programs, have been shaped according to them. A rich hybrid analysis of geography, history, culture, and politics."--Jacket.
Author | : Roger Williams |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 722 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0756660564 |
Spilling over with all sorts of useful information for the traveler, "Eyewitness Travel Guide: France" paints a complete picture of the country. Readers will appreciate the hundreds of color photos of everything from ski towns to beaches to wine vineyards.
Author | : Cris Harris |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2020-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780870711084 |
Rich with boyhood remembrances of the Pacific Northwest of the 1970s through the 1990s, I Have Not Loved You With My Whole Heart is a memoir of trauma, healing, faith, and violence, told in overlapping personal essays that pull the reader through turning points in a household crowded with dysfunction, and toward the healing that comes after reconciliation. At the book's center is a conflicted and contradictory relationship between the author and his father, the Rev. Renne Harris, a heavy-handed, alcoholic, Episcopal priest who came out in the height of the AIDS crisis and died of HIV in 1995, but not before finding a measure of peace and acceptance.
Author | : Rachel Khoo |
Publisher | : Chronicle Books |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2014-10-14 |
Genre | : Cooking |
ISBN | : 1452146039 |
Travel through the French countryside with the author of The Little Paris Kitchen—and find one hundred recipes from Brittany Bouillon to Tropezienne Tartlet. Through her cookbook and BBC television show The Little Paris Kitchen, Rachel Khoo became known for her Parisian lifestyle, fashion sense—and delicious recipes. In My Little French Kitchen, Rachel leaves Paris and travels to the mountains, villages, and shores of France, sampling regional specialties and translating them into more than one hundred recipes. With extensive photographs, as well as dozens of Rachel’s own hand-drawn illustrations, this is the perfect cookbook for foodies and Francophiles hungry for more fresh takes on French classics. Praise for Rachel Khoo’s cookbooks: “Quirky twists on classic dishes.” —Easy Living “Excellent . . . stylish, tempting, and just plain fun.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Author | : Jordan Marxer |
Publisher | : 83 Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2020-09-15 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 9781940772776 |
From the history-cloaked towns of Normandy and the fragrant lavender fields in Provence to the dew-kissed vineyards of Burgundy and Aquitaine, nothing compares with the beauty and the romance of France. The latest offering from the editors of Victoria magazine, Our Hearts Are in France takes readers on a memorable journey through this majestic country, where centuries-old chateaux rise from the riverbanks and snow-dusted mountains give way to rolling hills and fertile valleys sprinkled with tiny villages, each one more enchanting than the last. We visit the eternally alluring City of Light, where Julia Child honed her culinary skills, Parisians stroll pocket gardens brimming with roses, and love blooms beneath the graceful curves of the Eiffel Tower. Our Hearts Are in France is replete with page after page of beautiful interiors, from the idyllic retreat of Marie Antoinette and a pastoral farmhouse in Provence to the quaint quarters of an American in Paris, as well as with ideas for creating personal Gallic-inspired sanctuaries. And should one's palate long for a taste of French cuisine, we offer a cache of delectable recipes that are certain to delight both sweet and savory yearnings. Equal parts travel guide, design compendium, and cookbook--and a must for any Francophile-- Our Hearts Are in France honors and celebrates this magical land that holds such a special place in our hearts.
Author | : Bernard Debarbieux |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2015-09-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022603125X |
In The Mountain, geographers Bernard Debarbieux and Gilles Rudaz trace the origins of the very concept of a mountain, showing how it is not a mere geographic feature but ultimately an idea, one that has evolved over time, influenced by changes in political climates and cultural attitudes. To truly understand mountains, they argue, we must view them not only as material realities but as social constructs, ones that can mean radically different things to different people in different settings. From the Enlightenment to the present day, and using a variety of case studies from all the continents, the authors show us how our ideas of and about mountains have changed with the times and how a wide range of policies, from border delineation to forestry as well as nature protection and social programs, have been shaped according to them. A rich hybrid analysis of geography, history, culture, and politics, the book promises to forever change the way we look at mountains.