Haussmann Or The Distinction
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Haussmann Or The Distinction
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Author : Paul LaFarge
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2014-03-18
Haussmann Or The Distinction written by Paul LaFarge and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-18 with Fiction categories.
Paul La Farge's stunning, imaginative novel about the great architect of Paris "full of artful prose, wit, and provocative ideas.” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann, who demolished and rebuilt Paris in the middle of the nineteenth century, was the first urbanist of the modern era--and perhaps the greatest. He presided over two decades of riches, peace, and progress in a city the likes of which no one had ever seen before, with boulevards monumentally conceived and brilliantly lit, clean water, public transportation, and sewers that were the envy of every nation in the world. Yet there is a story that, on his deathbed, Haussmann wished all his work undone. "Would that it had died with me!" he is supposed to have said. What is the secret of the baron's last regret? To answer this question, Haussmann tells the story of Madeleine, a foundling who grew up in the magical, chaotic world that Haussmann destroyed; of de Fonce, one of the great artistes démolisseurs who tore Paris down and sold its rubble as antiques; and of a three-sided affair that pits love against ambition, architecture against flesh, and the living Parisians against Haussmann's unbuilt masterpiece, the Railroad of the Dead. Although steeped in history, Paul La Farge's Haussmann, or the Distinction is a novel not bound by fact; it is an account of the hidden, sometimes fantastical life of the nineteenth century, a work that will make readers think of Borges as well as Balzac; it is a view of cities, of love, and of history itself from the other side of the mirror.
The Life And Times Of Baron Haussmann Paris In The Second Empire
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Author : Robert C. Weinberg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1959
The Life And Times Of Baron Haussmann Paris In The Second Empire written by Robert C. Weinberg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1959 with categories.
The Night Ocean
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Author : Howard Phillips Lovecraft
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-06-13
The Night Ocean written by Howard Phillips Lovecraft and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-13 with Fiction categories.
"The Night Ocean" is told from the first person narrative and it follows the young painter who arrives in a small village of Ellston where he is supposed to enter a contest with his large mural. At first, he enjoys peace and quiet surroundings, but as he stays longer he start seeing and experiencing some strange things which, along with the loneliness, have strong effect to his psyche.
Luminous Airplanes
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Author : Paul La Farge
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2011-09-27
Luminous Airplanes written by Paul La Farge and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-27 with Fiction categories.
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A decade after the publication of Haussmann, or the Distinction, his acclaimed novel about nineteenth-century Paris, Paul La Farge turns his imagination to America at the dawn of the twenty-first century in Luminous Airplanes. In September 2000, a young computer programmer comes home from a festival in the Nevada desert and learns that his grandfather has died. He must return to Thebes, a town so isolated that its inhabitants have their own language, and clean out the house where his family has lived for five generations. While he's there, he remembers San Francisco in the wild years of the Internet boom, and begins an ill-advised romance in which past and present are dangerously confused. La Farge's Luminous Airplanes is an expansive, hugely imaginative, and very funny novel about history, love, memory, family, flying machines, dance music, and the end of the world.
What Happened To Haussmann
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Author : Robert Moses
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date :
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The House I Loved
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Author : Tatiana de Rosnay
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date : 2012-02-14
The House I Loved written by Tatiana de Rosnay and has been published by St. Martin's Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-14 with Fiction categories.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Sarah's Key and A Secret Kept comes an absorbing new novel about one woman's resistance during an époque that shook Paris to its very core. Paris, France: 1860's. Hundreds of houses are being razed, whole neighborhoods reduced to ashes. By order of Emperor Napoleon III, Baron Haussman has set into motion a series of large-scale renovations that will permanently alter the face of old Paris, moulding it into a "modern city." The reforms will erase generations of history—but in the midst of the tumult, one woman will take a stand. Rose Bazelet is determined to fight against the destruction of her family home until the very end; as others flee, she stakes her claim in the basement of the old house on rue Childebert, ignoring the sounds of change that come closer and closer each day. Attempting to overcome the loneliness of her daily life, she begins to write letters to Armand, her beloved late husband. And as she delves into the ritual of remembering, Rose is forced to come to terms with a secret that has been buried deep in her heart for thirty years. Tatiana de Rosnay's The House I Loved is both a poignant story of one woman's indelible strength, and an ode to Paris, where houses harbor the joys and sorrows of their inhabitants, and secrets endure in the very walls...
The Night Ocean
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Author : Paul La Farge
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2017-03-07
The Night Ocean written by Paul La Farge and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-07 with Fiction categories.
From the award-winning author and New Yorker contributor, a riveting novel about secrets and scandals, psychiatry and pulp fiction, inspired by the lives of H.P. Lovecraft and his circle. Marina Willett, M.D., has a problem. Her husband, Charlie, has become obsessed with H.P. Lovecraft, in particular with one episode in the legendary horror writer's life: In the summer of 1934, the "old gent" lived for two months with a gay teenage fan named Robert Barlow, at Barlow's family home in central Florida. What were the two of them up to? Were they friends--or something more? Just when Charlie thinks he's solved the puzzle, a new scandal erupts, and he disappears. The police say it's suicide. Marina is a psychiatrist, and she doesn't believe them. A tour-de-force of storytelling, The Night Ocean follows the lives of some extraordinary people: Lovecraft, the most influential American horror writer of the 20th century, whose stories continue to win new acolytes, even as his racist views provoke new critics; Barlow, a seminal scholar of Mexican culture who killed himself after being blackmailed for his homosexuality (and who collaborated with Lovecraft on the beautiful story "The Night Ocean"); his student, future Beat writer William S. Burroughs; and L.C. Spinks, a kindly Canadian appliance salesman and science-fiction fan -- the only person who knows the origins of The Erotonomicon, purported to be the intimate diary of Lovecraft himself. As a heartbroken Marina follows her missing husband's trail in an attempt to learn the truth, the novel moves across the decades and along the length of the continent, from a remote Ontario town, through New York and Florida to Mexico City. The Night Ocean is about love and deception -- about the way that stories earn our trust, and betray it.
The Artist Of The Missing
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Author : Paul LaFarge
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 1999-06-04
The Artist Of The Missing written by Paul LaFarge and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-06-04 with Fiction categories.
A surrealistic tale on an artist searching for his missing girlfriend, a police crime photographer. He encounters some revolutionaries, also seeking missing persons, joins them and lands in jail.
The Measure Of Paris
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Author : Stephen Scobie
language : en
Publisher: University of Alberta
Release Date : 2012-03-01
The Measure Of Paris written by Stephen Scobie and has been published by University of Alberta this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-01 with Literary Collections categories.
Paris remains one of the most fascinating cities in the world. It provides a measure of excellence in many areas of culture, and it is itself constantly being measured, both by its lovers and by its critics. This book presents a series of studies on the images of Paris presented by writers (mostly Canadian, from John Glassco to Mavis Gallant to Lola Lemire Tostevin), but also in such other areas as social history and personal memoir. The result is a wide-ranging discussion of the city's history in 20th century literature and thought, which will appeal to all those who love Paris, or who have ever walked on its streets.
Trix Robert Haussmann
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Author : Balthazar Lovay
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Trix Robert Haussmann written by Balthazar Lovay and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with categories.