Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ]
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.
Houses loom large in Bowen's work (as is evident in Bowen's Court, her 1946 book memorialising her ancestral house, Bowen's Court, one of the Irish great houses, which she was forced to sell and which was subsequently demolished) and in The House in Paris the main setting is the house where Naomi and Mme Fisher live, which is characterised as ...
The Paris Wife was popular with readers, and "shot to the top of the New York Times best-seller list soon after its release in 2011." [2] Author Helen Simonson praised the book for "its depiction of two passionate, yet humanly-flawed people struggling against impossible odds—poverty, artistic fervor, destructive friendships—to cling on to each other". [3]
Set in Paris, France, the book follows a Sotheby's auctioneer who discovers a wide range of antiques and collectibles in an apartment that had been locked for 70 years. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It was first published by Thomas Dunne Books for St. Martin's Press in 2014 [ 5 ] and eventually appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list in 2016 and is a USA ...
The Paris Apartment received positive reviews in USA Today, [3] Paste, [4] and Publishers Weekly. [1] A review published in The Independent praised the novel's fast pace, but noted that avid fans of the mystery genre may find the ending predictable. [5] It was a Book of the Month selection by author Ashley Audrain. [6]
The Mysteries of Paris (French: Les Mystères de Paris) is a novel by the French writer Eugène Sue. It was published serially in 90 parts in Journal des débats from 19 June 1842 until 15 October 1843, making it one of the first serial novels published in France. [ 1 ]
The 6:41 to Paris is a novel set on a train traveling to present-day Paris told through the individual memories of two characters in a dual narrative. [3] It is an account of a past romance between Cécile Duffaut and Philippe Leduc twenty-seven years ago when the two were both twenty.