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France in Mind (Vintage Departures Original)
France in Mind - Vintage Departures Original Author:Alice Leccese Powers (Editor) In her third literary Baedeker, Alice Leccese Powers–editor of Italy in Mind and Ireland in Mind–explores France through the senses and sensibilities of thirty-three British and American authors. — The food and the people, the culture and viniculture, the architecture and the expatriates, the pleasures (and frustr... more »ations) of France are described by intrepid travelers who also happen to be brilliant essayists, poets, and novelists. From Gertrude Stein’s Paris to Ezra Pound’s Pyrenees; from Tobias Smollett, who grumbled, to Peter Mayle, who settled in; and from Edith Wharton on falling in love to David Sedaris on falling over French grammar–here is France in all its splendor in the words of some of the best and most entertaining writers in the English language.
Henry Adams • James Baldwin • Elizabeth Bishop • Mary Blume • James Fenimore Cooper • Charles Dickens • Lawrence Durrell • Lawrence Ferlinghetti • M. F. K. Fisher • F. Scott Fitzgerald • Janet Flanner • Adam Gopnik • Joanne Harris • Ernest Hemingway • Washington Irving • Henry James • Thomas Jefferson • Stanley Karnow • Peter Mayle • Mary McCarthy • Jan Morris • Ezra Pound • David Sedaris • Tobias Smollett • Gertrude Stein • Robert Louis Stevenson • Paul Theroux • Gillian Tindall • Calvin Trillin • Mark Twain • Edith Wharton • Richard Wilbur • William Carlos Williams
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 --
Caf ̌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« less
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