A Good Year |
 Peter Mayle
ISBN: 0751534161
Max Skinner is a man at the heart of London's financial universe until his employers embark on a little asset- stripping of their own. Himself. Amid the grey London drizzle, there is one potential ray of sunshine: Max's Uncle Harry has left him his...(read more) |
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A Literary Guide to Provence: A Reader's Handbook to the Garden of France |
 Daniel Vitaglione
ISBN: 0804010366
Provence through the eyes of its writers, the local ones who wrote in Provencal or French but also its visitors who were also moved, that is the inspiration behind "A Literary Guide to Provence". In this compact travel guide, Marseilles...(read more) |
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Hotel Pastis |
 Peter Mayle
ISBN: 0140238646
Simon Shaw is 42, freshly divorced and tired. As he surveys the desolation of his former home in the wake of his ex-wife, he yearns for a life free of complications. But somehow a short break in the warm seductive air of Provence quickly turns into...(read more) |
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Invitation to Provence |
 Elizabeth Adler
ISBN: 0340830379
Nothing ever changes much in the village of Marten-de-Provence...until Rafaella Marten decides she has lived alone in the Chateau des Roses Sauvages for too long, and that the time has come at last to bring youth and energy, love and laughter back to...(read more) |
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Perfume |
 Patrick Suskind
ISBN: 0140120831
A murder was the start of his obsession. It was after that first crime that he knew he was a genius, that he understood his destiny. He, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, the fishmonger's bastard, was to be the greatest perfumier of all time. |
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Short French Fiction |
 J. E. Flower (Editor)
ISBN: 085989570X
Short fiction in France has made a major contribution to French culture and literature. This volume provides insights into some examples of this sort of writing in the 20th century and also includes a chapter which explores the ways in which the genre...(read more) |
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The Avignon Quintet |
 Lawrence Durrell
ISBN: 0571163092
An omnibus edition of the five novels published by Durrell in a kaleidoscopic sequence between 1974 and 1985. The books are set mainly in Avignon and the ancient kingdom of Provence, though significant episodes in the quintet are set in the Egyptian...(read more) |
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The Literature of Provence: An Introduction |
 Daniel Vitaglione
ISBN: 078640843X
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The Long Afternoon |
 Giles Waterfield
ISBN: 0747272352
The Williamsons arrive on the French Riviera, find a home and start building a life of comfort though a shadow lies across their domestic utopia, not only in Henry's health but the European conflict. As the story unfolds, the marriage...(read more) |
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The Penguin Book of French Poetry |
William Rees (Editor)
ISBN: 0140423850
The period 1820-1950 is a particularly rich field for students and lovers of poetry. While this anthology contains, of course, generous selections from the established giants - Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarme, Valery, Apollinaire, Michaux - it also draws...(read more) |
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The Water of the Hills: Jean De Florette and Manon of the Springs |
 Marcel Pagnol
ISBN: 0330307797
Tells the story of Jean de Florette, a 35-year-old, city-bred, hunchbacked idealist, his wife, Aimee, and his daughter, Manon. In the second novel, Manon seeks revenge for her father's death, and it is she who brings the wheel full circle in a final...(read more) |
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