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Writers in Paris: Literary Lives in the City of Light
by David Burke  Publisher Comments No city has attracted so much literary talent, launched so many illustrious careers, or produced such a wealth of enduring literature as Paris. From the 15th century through the 20th, poets, novelists, and playwrights, famed for both their work and their...
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News of Paris: American Journalists in the City of Light Between the Wars
by Ronald Weber Synopsis News of Paris recaptures the colorful, often zany world of Paris-American journalists during the glory days of the expatriate period. Ronald Weber aims to add them to the story of Paris in this fabled time, and in this charming, delightfully entertaining...
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Murder in Parisian Streets: Manufacturing Crime and Justice in the Popular Press 1830-1900
by Thomas Cragin Synopsis This book provides an in-depth study of the production, sale, and content of the sensational canards--cheap news broadsheets and booklets. It demonstrates the enormous popularity of this old news genre throughout the nineteenth century and its critical...
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News of Paris: American Journalists in the City of Light Between the Wars
by Ronald Weber Synopsis A bumptious narrative history of American newspapermen in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s, a time when serious journalism still went hand in hand with relative poverty, good times, and a carefree spirit cultivated by eccentric personalities. An absorbing...
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The Master and Minerva
by Helen Solterer Synopsis Can words do damage? For medieval culture, the answer was unambiguously yes. And as Helen Solterer contends, in French medieval culture the representation of women exemplified the use of injurious language. Solterer investigates the debates over women...
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Paris Journal #2: Paris Journal 1956-1964
by Janet Flanner Publisher Comments This portrait of a city and an era is drawn from the the author's celebrated "Letter from Paris," a series that appeared in The New Yorker from 1925 to 1975 over the signature "Genêt." Edited by William Shawn; Index....
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The notorious life of Gyp :right-wing anarchist in fin-de-siáecle France
by Willa Z Silverman Publisher Comments The aristocratic French writer known to her readers as "Gyp" was acclaimed by Henry James as "Mistress...of one of the happiest of forms" for her satirical dialogue-novels of fin-de-sie[accent]le Parisian society, but Octave Mirbeau declared her work...
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Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier
by Richard Mcdougall 
Powells.com Staff Pick This is as good a place as any to confess my elaborate fantasy about living on the Left Bank in the 20's and 30's. While this community of modernists turned out a lot of cultural heavyweights (Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce), the people that...
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Paul Lafargue and the Founding of French Marxism, 1842-1882
by Leslie Derfler Synopsis Demonstrating an almost seamless web between intellectual and family history, Leslie Derfler relates ideas and family identity in this account of the first forty years of Paul Lafargue's life....
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Women of the Left Bank
by Shari Benstock Publisher Comments This is an exploration of the lives and works of some two dozen American, English, and French women whose talent shaped the Paris expatriate experience in the early twentieth century....
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A Lion for Love: A Critical Biography of Stendhal
by Robert Alter
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Paris Was a Woman
by Andrea Weiss Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 250) and index....
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Chateaubriand a Biography the Longe Volume 1
by George D Painter TOC v. 1. The longed-for tempests....
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Writers' France: A Regional Panorama
by John Ardagh Description Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-311) and index....
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Great Good Place: American Expatriate Women in Paris
by William Wiser TOC Mary Cassatt : 1844-1926 -- Edith Wharton : 1862-1937 -- Caresse Crosby : 1892-1970 -- Zelda Fitzgerald : 1900-1948 -- Josephine Baker : 1906-1975....
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Gender and Citizenship
by Claudia Moscovici Synopsis Claudia Moscovici proposes a new understanding of how gender relations were reformulated by both male and female writers in nineteenth-century France. She analyzes the different versions of gendered citizenship elaborated by Friedrich Hegel, George Sand,...
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Paris Was Yesterday, 1925-1939
by Janet Flanner
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The Left Bank :writers, artists, and politics from the Popular Front to the Cold War
by Herbert R Lottman
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Early Public Theatre in France
by W L Wiley
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Paris was yesterday, 1925-1939.
by Janet Flanner
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