A Literary Companion to Paris (Penguin travel guides) - Softcover

Littlewood, Ian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141001399 ISBN 13: 9780141001395

Publisher: Penguin, 2001

Synopsis

The Paris that comes alive in this book is the city that writers from Rabelais to Hemingway have observed and clebrated for the past 500 years. By interweaving extracts from their work with his own informative commentary Ian Littlewood offers the reader, district by district, a wonderfully evocative glimpse of the streets, squares and buildings of Paris. The spirit of Proust still haunts the Faubourg Saint-Germain; the old hotels of the Marais recall the elegant world of Mme de Sevigne. In the arcades of the Palais-Royal there are lingering echoes of the Paris admired by eighteenth and nineteenth century travellers and behind the Pantheon the narrow streets described by George Orwell still survive.

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RO40151448. A LITERARY COMPANION TO PARIS. 2001. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 246 pages. Illustré de planc en noir et blanc.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0141001399
• ISBN 13: 9780141001395
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256