| Description |
xxvi, 293 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
Vintage departures
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| Note |
"A Vintage departures original"--T.p. verso. |
| Contents |
Towers and portals from Mont St. Michel and Chartres / Henry Adams -- The new lost generation / James Baldwin -- Paris 7A.M. / Elizabeth Bishop -- Money speaks in France Mary Blume -- Letter XVI to James Stevenson, Esquire, Albany / James Fenimore Cooper -- From A tale of two cities / Charles Dickens -- Avignon / Lawrence Durrell -- Caf̌ Notre Dame / Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- The place where I looked / M.F.K. Fisher / -- from Tender is the night / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- March 11 from Paris Journal / Janet Flanner -- Like a king from Paris to the moon / Adam Gopnik -- from Chocolat / Joanne Harris -- from A moveable feast / Ernest Hemingway -- The adventure of my uncle / Washington Irving -- Rheims / Henry James -- Property and natural right: a letter to James Madison / Thomas Jefferson -- The glass of fashion from Paris in the Fifties / Stanley Karnow -- from A year in Provence / Peter Mayle -- Epistle from Mother Carey's chicken from Birds in America / Mary McCarthy -- Trouville: a town the artists loved / Jan Morris -- A walking tour in southern France / Ezra Pound -- Make that a double from Me talk pretty one day / David Sedaris -- Letter Viii, Letter IX from Smollet's travels / Tobias Smollett -- My arrival in Paris / Gertrude Stein -- from Travels with a donkey / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Le grand sud to Nice from The pillars of Hercules / Paul Theroux -- from Celestine / Gillian Tindall -- Hanging around in Uzes from Travels with Alice / Calvin Trillin -- Aix-les-Bains / Mark Twain -- from The reef / Edith Wharton -- Place Pigalle / Richard Wilbur -- Paris again from A voyage to Pagany / William Carlos Williams. |
| Subject |
France -- Literary collections.
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English literature.
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American literature.
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| Added Author |
Powers, Alice Leccese.
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| ISBN |
0375714359 |
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