Paris in Shadow
Author | : Lee Holt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Paris (France) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Lee Holt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Paris (France) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lee Holt |
Publisher | : Hardpress Publishing |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2012-08-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781290883016 |
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author | : Sudhir Hazareesingh |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2012-07-26 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0195308883 |
The French writer Francois Mauriac once predicted that "when de Gaulle will be here no longer, he will still be here." This insight has proved prophetic. In contemporary France, Charles de Gaulle has become a figure of legend, consistently acclaimed as the nation's pre-eminent "historical" figure. Central to this popularity is the recognition of his pivotal role as the founder, and then the leader, of the Resistance movement during the Second World War. Once might be tempted to conclude that it is the man who became mythical, not the institutions he created. But here, the paradoxes abound. For one thing, his personal popularity sits oddly with his social origins and professional background. Neither the nobility, nor the Catholic Church, nor the Army is particularly well-regarded in France today: in their different ways, they all symbolize antiquated traditions and values. So why, then, do the French nonetheless identify with, celebrate, and even revere this austere and devout nobleman, who remained closely wedded to military values throughout his life? In the Shadow of the General resolves this mystery and explains how de Gaulle has to come occupy such a privileged position in the French imagination. Sudhir Hazareesingh's story of how an individual life transformed into national myth also tells a great deal about the French collective self in the twenty-first century: its fractured memory, its aspirations to greatness, and its manifold anxieties. Alongside the tale of de Gaulle's legacy, a much broader narrative unfolds: the story of modern France.
Author | : Dianne Hofmeyr |
Publisher | : Tiny Owl Publishing |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2020-05 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781910328590 |
A sassy cat from the back alleys of Paris believes she is quite different to the rest of the rabble. She can do anything she sets her mind to - even if others don't think so. Leaving her cat family behind, she sets off to explore Paris. Cat meets legendary singer Edith Piaf, creates her own stunning designs at a high-fashion atelier and dances with the infamous dancer Josephine Baker and her cheetah. But is this the life she really wants? What about her friends and family?
Author | : Lee Holt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2016-08-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781373642967 |
Author | : Lee Holt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2015-07-12 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781331250098 |
Excerpt from Paris in Shadow A trifle over medium height, with a thin, upright, active figure. A high forehead, the forehead of an idealist, perhaps, were it not balanced by its breadth. Rather quizzical grey eyes. Movements quick and decisive. He talks little except when with the few men he knows well, but takes a keen interest in the doings of his little world in Paris where he has lived so long. In this world he has a special place, unique, perhaps, among the foreign colony. Though a persona grata, everywhere his circle of real intimates is small. In the diary which follows he has noted down the trifling happenings of every day, those little events which more than all show the true spirit of the time. He writes from the standpoint of an American who has lived in France most of his life, but still retains a deep love of his own country. The book was not written in a spirit of criticism, merely to describe the everyday Paris as it was in 1916-1917. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Carlos Ruiz Zafon |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2005-01-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101147067 |
The New York Times bestseller “The Shadow of the Wind is ultimately a love letter to literature, intended for readers as passionate about storytelling as its young hero.” —Entertainment Weekly (Editor's Choice) “One gorgeous read.” —Stephen King Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer’s son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julián Carax. But when he sets out to find the author’s other works, he makes a shocking discovery: someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book Carax has written. In fact, Daniel may have the last of Carax’s books in existence. Soon Daniel’s seemingly innocent quest opens a door into one of Barcelona’s darkest secrets--an epic story of murder, madness, and doomed love.
Author | : Mark Helprin |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 725 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0547819234 |
Returning home after serving World War II to run his family business in New York, a paratrooper falls in love with a young heiress and actress he meets on the State Island ferry.
Author | : EM Castellan |
Publisher | : Feiwel & Friends |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2020-02-11 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 1250226031 |
EM Castellan's In the Shadow of the Sun is a sumptuous YA romantasy set in 17th century Versailles. It’s 1661 in Paris, and magicians thrill nobles with enchanting illusions. Exiled in France, 17-year-old Henriette of England wishes she could use her magic to gain entry at court. Instead, her plan is to hide her magical talents, and accept an arranged marriage to the French king’s younger brother. Henriette soon realizes her fiancé prefers the company of young men to hers, and court magicians turn up killed by a mysterious sorcerer who uses forbidden magic. When an accident forces Henriette to reveal her uniquely powerful gift for enchantments to Louis, he asks for her help: she alone can defeat the dark magician threatening his authority and aid his own plans to build the new, enchanted seat of his power--the Palace of Versailles.
Author | : David Cottington |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780300075298 |
This groundbreaking book provides a major reassessment of the history and significance of cubism. David Cottington examines the cubist movement and sets it within the complex political, economic, and cultural forces of pre-World War I France. Cubism, as a part of the Parisian artistic avant-garde, played an integral role in the turbulent Belle Epoque. The author focuses on cubisms relation to the particular discourses?of nationalism, aestheticism, gender, the social purpose of art?that gave meaning to the experience of modernity in Paris in the decade before the war. In Part I of the book, the author discusses the "cubist conjuncture," the years that followed the collapse of the Bloc des Gauches. The Bloc, more than a parliamentary alliance, represented an effort of collaboration between the liberal middle class and sectors of the working class led by Parisian intellectuals and artists (future cubists among them). In the wake of the Blocs failure, workers withdrew into trade unionism and artists into aesthetic avant-gardism. Cottington analyzes this consolidation of the artistic avant-garde, its relation to the expanding dealer-centered art market, and the dominant and counter discourses of the day. In Part II, he considers specific aspects of cubist art and the cubist movement?from the conservative modernism of the paintings of Le Fauconnier and Gleizes to the aestheticism of Picassos papiers-collés to the collective architectural and interior design project of the "cubist house." These examples and others, Cottington concludes, reveal cubism as a contradictory and unstable constellation of interests and practices, sometimes complicit with dominant social and political forces, sometimes opposed to them, but in every case shaped by them.