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Paris is a historical novel by Edward Rutherfurd published in 2013, which charts the history of Paris from 1261 to 1968. The novel follows six core families [1] set in locales such as Montmartre, Notre Dame and Boulevard Saint-Germain. [2] It includes a map of old Paris. [3] Later titled Paris: A Novel. [4]
The first novel, Tempête en juin (Storm in June) depicts the flight of citizens from Paris in the hours preceding the German advance and in the days following it. The second, Dolce ( Sweet ), shows life in a small French country town, Bussy (in the suburbs just east of Paris), in the first, strangely peaceful, months of the German occupation.
Mariana (Dickens novel) Marjorie Morningstar (novel) The Mark of the Angel; A Marriage Below Zero; The Mask of Dimitrios (novel) Memoirs of the Twentieth Century; The Merry Month of May (novel) The Metropolis Case; Les Misérables; Missing Person (novel) Mr. Finchley Goes to Paris; Mitsou (novella) A Moment of True Feeling; Monsieur Pain; The ...
Trilby O'Ferrall, the novel's heroine, is a half-Irish girl working in Paris as an artist's model and laundress; all the men in the novel are in love with her. The relationship between Trilby and Svengali forms only a small, though crucial, portion of the novel, which is mainly an evocation of a milieu .
Paris Blues is a 1961 American musical romantic drama film directed by Martin Ritt, starring Sidney Poitier as expatriate jazz saxophonist Eddie Cook, and Paul Newman as trombone-playing Ram Bowen. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The two men romance two vacationing American tourists, Connie Lampson ( Diahann Carroll ) and Lillian Corning ( Joanne Woodward ).
Jean-Patrick Manchette (19 December 1942, Marseille – 3 June 1995, Paris [1]) was a French crime novelist credited with reinventing and reinvigorating the genre. He wrote ten short novels in the seventies and early eighties, and is widely recognized as the foremost French crime fiction author of that period.
The Paris Architect is a 2013 novel by Charles Belfoure and the author's debut in fiction writing. Published by Sourcebooks Landmark, it follows the story of French architect Lucien Bernard, who is paid to create temporary hiding places for Jews in Nazi-occupied Paris. The book reached The New York Times best seller list in July 2015.
The Ambassadors is a 1903 novel by Henry James, originally published as a serial in the North American Review (NAR). The novel is a dark comedy which follows the trip of protagonist Lewis Lambert Strether to Europe to bring the son of his widowed fiancée back to the family business.