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This selection of books is designed to illustrate what Christopher Sawyer-Lauçano once coined as "The Continual Pilgrimage" and, more recently, David McCullough as "The Greater Journey". For other titles, please feel free to contact us by e-mail.



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Paris: The Collected Traveler, an Inspired Companion Guide

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This unique guide to one of the world’s most beloved tourist destinations combines fascinating articles by a wide variety of writers, woven throughout with the editor’s own indispensable advice and opinions—providing in one package an unparalleled experie 
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Beach, Sylvia

Shakespeare and Co

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Sylvia Beach was intimately acquainted with the expatriate and visiting writers of the Lost Generation, a label that she never accepted. Like moths of great promise, they were drawn to her well-lighted bookstore and warm hearth on the Left Bank. Shakespea 
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Benstock, Shari

Women of the Left Bank

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This ambitious historical, biographical, and critical study has taken its place among the foremost works of literary criticism. Maurice Beebe calls it "a distinguished contribution to modern literary history." Jane Marcus hails it as "the first serious li 
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Burke, David

Writers in Paris: Literary Lives in the City of Light

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Unique in scope and approach, Writers in Paris crosses from the Right Bank to the Left and on to the Ile de la Cité as it explores the alleyways and haunts frequented by the world’s most storied writers. 
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Downie, David

Paris, Paris: Journey into the City of Light

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An irreverent, witty romp featuring thirty-one short prose sketches of people, places and daily life, Paris, Paris: Journey into the City of Light ranges from the glamorous to the least-known corners and characters of the world’s favorite city. 
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Fitch, Noel Riley

Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation

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Flanner, Jannet

Paris Journal: 1944-1955

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Here is a continuation of selections from Flanner's celebrated "Letter from Paris," a series that appeared in the New Yorker from 1925 to 1975 over the signature " Genet." 
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Flanner, Jannet

Paris Journal: 1956-1964

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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 "Genet. 
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Gallant, Mavis

Paris Stories

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Michael Ondaatje's new selection of Gallant's work gathers some of the most memorable of her stories set in Europe and Paris, where Gallant has long lived. 
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Glassco, John

Memoirs of Montparnasse

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Memoirs of Montparnasse is a delicious book about being young, restless, reckless, and without cares. It is also the best and liveliest of the many chronicles of 1920s Paris and the exploits of the lost generation. 
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Gopnik, Adam

Paris to the Moon: A Family in France

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In the grand tradition of Stein and Hemingway, Gopnik planned to walk the paths of the Tuilleries, to enjoy philosophical discussion in cafes - in short, to lead the fabled life of an American in Paris. 
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Green, Julian

Paris

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Bilingual edition. 
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Hazan, Eric

The Invention of Paris: A History in Footsteps

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The Invention of Paris is a tour through the streets and history of the French capital under the guidance of radical Parisian author and publisher Eric Hazan. 
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Hemingway, Ernest

A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

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This restored edition contains chapters that were never published before. 
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Horne, Alistair

The Seven Ages of Paris

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In this wonderfully readable book, Alistair Horne tells the huge and romantic story of Paris through seven ages of turmoil and change: the Middle Ages, the 100 years war, the Paris of Louis XIV, the age of Napoleon, the Commune, the Empire days of Louis-N 
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Johnson, Diane

Into A Paris Quartier: Reine Margot's Chapel and Other Haunts of

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Acclaimed author Diane Johnson brings to life the legendary St. Germain-des-Pres quarter of Paris - her adoptive home for many years - with riveting stories that explain its continued mystique in the heart of the world's most alluring city. 
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Kauffma, Jean-Paul

The Angel on the Left Bank: The Secret of Delacroix's Parisian M

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In this mesmerizing examination of Delacroix's crowning masterwork, "Jacob Wrestling with the Angel," and of Saint-Sulpice, the grand church that houses it, Jean-Paul Kauffmann reveals the city of Paris in an entirely new way. 
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Malcolm, Janet

Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice

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Don't miss our event on Gertrude Stein, November 17th 2011. 
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McCullough, David

The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris

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The Greater Journey focuses on the period between 1830 and 1900, when hundreds of Americans - many of them future household names like Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mark Twain, Samuel Morse, John Singer Sargent and Harriet Beecher Stowe - migrated to Paris. 
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Paul, Elliot

The Last Time I Saw Paris

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Elliot Paul was a central figure in the anglophone literary scene in Paris, co-founding an experimental modernist literary magazine, transitions, which published Sam Beckett, Robert Graves, Kafka and Gertrude Stein between covers by Picasso, Miro, Kandins 
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