Download or read book Paris Escapades written by Peter Blake and published by Enitharmon Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paris Escapades is a book of Paris collages by Sir Peter Blake. Blake features many familiar monuments in his Paris pictures but submerges them in extraordinary events that turn them into the stuff of dreams.
Download or read book A French Escape written by Barry A. Whittingham and published by Barry A. Whittingham. This book was released on 2022-07-24 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a young French schoolmaster accepts an offer to spend a year teaching English in a lycée in a remote corner of Eastern France it’s not just to improve his spoken French and gain a deeper insight into the workings of a foreign culture. He longs to wipe his slate clean of past failures and to escape the entrenchment into which his English life is sinking. He dreams of freedom, adventure, romance, a more authentic kind of living and the narrowing of that gap between what he is and what he’d like to be. But his year reserves some dramatic surprises. And over his head dangles the gut-piercing threat that at any moment this fascinating new life could be brought to a premature end.
Download or read book Escapades of Romance written by Akisss Mora and published by Ukiyoto Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-03 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paris Maverick Prescott thought that taking her own life would solve all her problems, but when a man named Spencer saved her, she realized that there is more to living than she initially thought. she agrees to be his heart donor. This decision leads them down a path they never expected, forcing them to confront the choices they’ve made and what they truly want out of life. With a mix of heart, humor, and heartfelt moments, this story follows two individuals on a journey of self-discovery and resilience, Will Spencer still agrees to take Paris’s heart? or Paris will just let Spencer die just like that.
Download or read book Dirty Bertie An English King Made in France written by Stephen Clarke and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The entertaining biography of Edward VII and his playboy lifestyle, by Stephen Clarke, author of 1000 Years of Annoying the French and A Year in the Merde. Despite fierce opposition from his mother, Queen Victoria, Edward VII was always passionately in love with France. He had affairs with the most famous Parisian actresses, courtesans and can-can dancers. He spoke French more elegantly than English. He was the first ever guest to climb the Eiffel Tower with Gustave Eiffel, in defiance of an official English ban on his visit. He turned his French seduction skills into the diplomatic prowess that sealed the Entente Cordiale. A quintessentially English king? Pas du tout! Stephen Clarke argues that as 'Dirty Bertie', Edward learned all the essentials in life from the French.
Download or read book Real French for Travelers written by K. B. Oliver and published by Monceau Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-04 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For your trip to France, you might plan to take a phrase book. Let’s be honest: How likely are you to roll out a French phrase when you need one? Will you pronounce it correctly? Wouldn’t you rather speak Real French? With a bit of regular effort, you can learn the basics of French and this will greatly enrich your travels. If you plan to visit France more than once, it’s even more important to grasp basic travel French. It isn’t as difficult as you think. Let this book take you from zero to the past tense in basic travel French. This book provides clear explanations and examples along with realistic dialogues to take you one step at a time. Mastery exercises (with answer key as well as a downloadable PDF) will get you speaking Real French before you know it. Speak Real French during your trip and after. Real French is also available as an online course, a perfect companion for this book! Go ahead… before you pack your suitcase, invest in your trip to France, with REAL French.
Download or read book Making Jazz French written by Jeffrey H. Jackson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-05 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA history of jazz in interwar France, concentrating on the ways this originally American music was integrated into French culture./div
Download or read book The Colors of Paris written by Brooke Scudder Andrews and published by . This book was released on 2012-09-12 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Genius story about Ecole des Beaux-Arts student!" Kirsten Lobe Author of French Hangover and French Trysts "What a pleasure it is to be in the Paris of 1907- to visit the studios of Marie Laurencin and Picasso, to walk the halls of the Beaux Arts, and to see it all through the eyes of this willful young art student from San Francisco." Ryan Harty, Pushcart Prize Winner and author of Bring Me Your Saddest Arizona. The novel, THE COLORS OF PARIS opens the door for you to the greatest art movement of the 20th century while exploring a fascinating subject: what it means to be an artist, and a woman during a time when both art and the status of women were undergoing great change. The Colors of Paris is about the journey of a woman who refuses to accept a social life set out for her, in favor of discovering and expressing the very essence of her soul. The Colors of Paris deftly blends its vibrant fictional heroine with an array of iconic real life characters: Gertrude Stein, Picasso, Apollinaire, Marie Laurencin, vividly bringing to life the sights, the sounds, the smells--the feel-- of an early 20th century Paris, both bursting with and battling against new ideas and styles.
Download or read book Madame de S vign written by Frances Mossiker and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of Mme de Sevigne brings to life the world of seventeenth-century France, a mother and her daughter, a writer and her brilliant letters. The passion and the pathos of this correspondence brings us as close as we can come to the mind of a woman in the court of Louis XIV.
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Download or read book Operative Words written by Paul Bodine and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-08-22 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this erudite and engaging collection, Paul Bodine gathers together two decades of his provocative forays into books and culture, from the popular fiction of Stephen King and Richard North Patterson to the ageless classics of D. H. Lawrence and T. S. Eliot. Bristling with wit, frank analysis, and versatile intelligence, Operative Words features reviews of more than thirty books by such authors as Jay McInerney, Daniel Boorstin, John Keegan, and Doris Lessing as well as detailed profiles of twenty-five major American writers (from Cleveland Amory to Tom Wolfe), all originally appearing in major American newspapers and reference books. Bonus features include in-depth analyses of short stories by Vladimir Nabokov and F. Scott Fitzgerald, the critical reception of T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets , and cutting-edge French and American literary theory. No less spirited and eclectic are Bodine's takes on music, which range from an interview with an up-and-coming violinist and reviews of Mahler and Stravinsky biographies to the sounds and images of Roxy Music and John Lennon. A rich feast of opinion and reflection.
Download or read book A Study Guide for F Scott Fitzgerald s Babylon Revisited written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016-07-14 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Babylon Revisited," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
Download or read book The Girl with the Sweetest Secret written by Betina Krahn and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A fearless, irrepressible heroine and a hero who matches her every move meet in a complex, richly plotted story” by the New York Times bestselling author (Library Journal). When Frances Bumgarten encounters a handsome stranger in her kitchen in the middle of the night, her first impulse is to wallop the scoundrel on the head with a bread paddle. And when Frankie discovers he is “The Fox,” a disarmingly arrogant purveyor of gossip among England’s aristocracy, she’s tempted to take a second swing . . . Never mind that Reynard Boulton, nephew of the Viscount Tannehill, is returning her inebriated uncle safely home. This chiseled intruder has sparked an infuriating physical sensation unlike anything the feisty Nevada silver heiress has experienced. In fact, the noblemen of London are so dull, Frankie’s sworn off marriage entirely. She will, however, help her younger sister win her own love match—even if it means secretly enlisting Reynard’s enquiring mind . . . But secrets, as Reynard knows too well, can be costly. For Frankie is yet unaware that a villainous duke is scheming to claim her—and ruin him. Soon they’re racing to uncover the truth—and fueling a passion that won’t stay hidden . . . This ebook contains bonus content on book research and a Q&A with the author! “Krahn once again strikes the perfect balance between sharp wit and sexy romance.” —Booklist “There’s nothing I love better than a fabulous romance that has more on its mind than just the central relationship. And oh boy, does this one deliver.” —Bookpage
Download or read book Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters written by Lesley M. M. Blume and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cornelia, eleven-years-old and lonely, learns about language and life from an elderly new neighbor who has many stories to share about the fabulous adventures she and her sisters had while traveling around the world.
Download or read book The French Revolution written by Emma Moreau and published by New Word City. This book was released on 2016-08-31 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling historian Emma Moreau exposes and analyzes the events that turned ordinary French citizens into revolutionaries - from the attack on the Bastille to the executions of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette to the bloodthirsty Reign of Terror that claimed the lives of more than 40,000 people.
Download or read book A Philosophy of Walking written by Frédéric Gros and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “passionate affirmation of the simple life” explores how walking has influenced history’s greatest thinkers—from Henry David Thoreau and John Muir to Gandhi and Nietzsche (Observer) “It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth.” —Nietzsche In this French bestseller, leading thinker and philosopher Frédéric Gros charts the many different ways we get from A to B—the pilgrimage, the promenade, the protest march, the nature ramble—and reveals what they say about us. Gros draws attention to other thinkers who also saw walking as something central to their practice. On his travels he ponders Thoreau’s eager seclusion in Walden Woods; the reason Rimbaud walked in a fury, while Nerval rambled to cure his melancholy. He shows us how Rousseau walked in order to think, while Nietzsche wandered the mountainside to write. In contrast, Kant marched through his hometown every day, exactly at the same hour, to escape the compulsion of thought. Brilliant and erudite, A Philosophy of Walking is an entertaining and insightful manifesto for putting one foot in front of the other.
