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Paris Metro

Author : Wendell Steavenson
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0393356795
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Paris Metro written by Wendell Steavenson and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A nuanced, engrossing novel about conviction and terrorism in a cosmopolitan, complicated world.”—National Book Review From the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 to the terrorist attacks in Paris in 2015, Paris Metro is a story of East meets West. Kit, a reporter, has spent several years after 9/11 living in the Middle East, working as a correspondent for an American newspaper. Along the way she falls in love and marries a charismatic Iraqi diplomat named Ahmed, before their separation leaves Kit raising their teenage son alone in Paris. But after the Charlie Hebdo attack occurs and, a few months later, terrorists storm the Bataclan, Kit’s core beliefs are shattered. The violence she had spent years covering abroad is now on her doorstep. As Kit struggles with her grief and confusion, she begins to mistrust those closest to her: her friends, her husband, even her own son.

Metro Stop Paris

Author : Gregor Dallas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802719007
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Metro Stop Paris written by Gregor Dallas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of Paris in twelve métro stops. Métro Stop Paris recounts the extraordinary and colorful history of the City of Light, by way of twelve Métro stops-a voyage across both space and time. At each stop a Parisian building, or street, or tomb or landmark sparks a story that holds particular significance for that area of the city. Dallas takes us to the jazz cellars and literary cafés of Montparnasse and Saint-Germain-des-Prés; the catacombs at Hell's Gate; and the Opéra during the days of Claude Debussy. A darker side of Paris emerges at the Trocadéro stop and a charitable side at the Gare du Nord, which highlights the work of Saint Vincent de Paul. Finally, our journey ends at Père-Lachaise cemetery with the little-known story of Oscar Wilde's curious involvement in the Dreyfus affair, one of France's greatest legal scandals. From Hell (the Denfert-Rochereau stop on the south side of the city) to Heaven (the Gare du Nord at the north end of Paris), Métro Stop Paris carries readers on a journey of the heart and mind. Métro Stop Paris is a thinker's guide to Paris made up of "slices of life," little vignettes drawn from Paris's two thousand years of history. Taken separately, these are charming historic tales about a city known and loved by many, but read as a whole Métro Stop Paris goes straight to the heart of what is quintessentially Parisian.

The Girl Who Reads on the Métro

Author : Christine Féret-Fleury
Publisher : Flatiron Books
ISBN 13 : 1250315433
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Girl Who Reads on the Métro written by Christine Féret-Fleury and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “With a cast of characters reminiscent of the French film Amélie, Féret-Fleury creates a world that is delightful and enchanting...Light and sweet as a bonbon, this little confection of a book is delicious.” —Kirkus Reviews For fans of Amélie and The Little Paris Bookshop, a modern fairytale about a French woman whose life is turned upside down when she meets a reclusive bookseller and his young daughter. Juliette leads a perfectly ordinary life in Paris, working a slow office job, dating a string of not-quite-right men, and fighting off melancholy. The only bright spots in her day are her métro rides across the city and the stories she dreams up about the strangers reading books across from her: the old lady, the math student, the amateur ornithologist, the woman in love, the girl who always tears up at page 247. One morning, avoiding the office for as long as she can, Juliette finds herself on a new block, in front of a rusty gate wedged open with a book. Unable to resist, Juliette walks through, into the bizarre and enchanting lives of Soliman and his young daughter, Zaide. Before she realizes entirely what is happening, Juliette agrees to become a passeur, Soliman’s name for the booksellers he hires to take stacks of used books out of his store and into the world, using their imagination and intuition to match books with readers. Suddenly, Juliette’s daydreaming becomes her reality, and when Soliman asks her to move in to their store to take care of Zaide while he goes away, she has to decide if she is ready to throw herself headfirst into this new life. Big-hearted, funny, and gloriously zany, The Girl Who Reads on the Métro is a delayed coming-of-age story about a young woman who dares to change her life, and a celebration of the power of books to unite us all.

The Paris Metro 40th Anniversary Issue

Author : Joel Stratte-McClure
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781535166485
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (664 download)

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Download or read book The Paris Metro 40th Anniversary Issue written by Joel Stratte-McClure and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-14 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Paris Metro was a fortnightly, English-language magazine in France that published sixty-four issues between June 1976 and December 1978.Although time can diminish or exaggerate the past, there seems to be agreement that there was something special and unique about The Paris Metro - and the creative people associated with it.Published roughly in chronological order, these fifty anecdotes, memoirs, reflections and vignettes written in 2016 by former staff members, freelancers and readers of The Paris Metro provide a glimpse of the magazine's then-magical presence and now-mythical stature.The compilation provides some insight into the magazine's allure and includes scores of illustrations and extracts plucked from past issues. And photo spreads by two of the best photographers in Paris during the 1970s.

Discover Paris by Metro

Author : Anne-Claire Ruel
Publisher : E/P/A Editions
ISBN 13 : 9782812305528
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Discover Paris by Metro written by Anne-Claire Ruel and published by E/P/A Editions. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique guide to the legendary Paris Métro that reveals, line by line, station by station, what to see and do to discover Paris like a Parisian.

Paris Underground

Author : Mark Ovenden
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 9780143116394
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book Paris Underground written by Mark Ovenden and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Paris Métro is one of the most iconic transit systems in the world. Its classic art nouveau entrances, art deco candelabra, white-tiled stations and idiosyncratic maps are almost as recognizable city landmarks as the Tour Eiffel, Arc de Triomphe or the Louvre.' - MARK OVENDEN, from the Introduction Illustrated with more than 1,000 full-color maps, diagrams and photographs of the iconic Paris subway system PARIS UNDERGROUND is the essential graphic history of the magnificent Métro. PRAISE FOR Transit Maps of the World 'More than impressive. Ovenden does what no other design history book has ever done.' - The New York Times 'The perfect book . . . for urban transit freaks and fans.' - USA Today

In Paris with You

Author : Clémentine Beauvais
Publisher : Wednesday Books
ISBN 13 : 1250299179
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book In Paris with You written by Clémentine Beauvais and published by Wednesday Books. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A pure delight." -- #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicola Yoon For fans of Eleanor & Park and Emergency Contact comes a sweeping romance about the love that got away. Eugene and Tatiana could have fallen in love, if things had gone differently. If they had tried to really know each other, if it had just been them, and not the others. But that was years ago and time has found them far apart, leading separate lives. Until they meet again in Paris. What really happened back then? And now? Could they ever be together again after everything?

Metronome

Author : Lorànt Deutsch
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 125002367X
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Metronome written by Lorànt Deutsch and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A phenomenal bestseller in France, Metronome presents a fascinating history of Paris through the lens of the city's iconic Metro system Did you know that the last Gallic warriors massacred by the Romans lie beneath the Eiffel Tower? That the remains of Paris's first cathedral are under a parking lot in the Fifth District? Metronome follows Loránt Deutsch, historian and lifelong Francophile, as he goes on a compelling journey through the ages, treating readers to Paris as they've never seen it before. Using twenty-one stops of the subway system as focal points—one per century—Deutsch shows, from the underground up, the unique, often violent, and always striking events that shaped one of the world's most romanticized city. Readers will find out which streets are hiding incredible historical treasures in plain sight; peer into forgotten nooks and crannies of the City of Lights and learn what used to be there; and discover that, however deeply buried, something always remains.

No. 91/92

Author : Lauren Elkin
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1635901537
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book No. 91/92 written by Lauren Elkin and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A love letter to Paris and a meditation on how it has changed in two decades, evolving from the twentieth century into the twenty-first, from analog to digital. Your telephone is precious. It may be envied. We recommend vigilance when using it in public. --Paris bus public notice In fall 2014 Lauren Elkin began keeping a diary of her bus commutes in the Notes app on her iPhone 5c, writing down the interesting things and people she saw in a Perecquian homage to Bus Lines 91 and 92, which she took from her apartment in the 5th Arrondissement to her teaching job in the 7th. Reading the notice, she decided to be vigilant when using her phone: she would carry out a public transport vigil, using it to take in the world around her and notice all the things she would miss if she continued using it the way she had been, the way everyone does--to surf the web, check social media, maintain her daily sense of self through digital interaction. Her goal became to observe the world through the screen of her phone, rather than using her phone to distract from the world. During the course of that academic year, the Charlie Hebdo attacks occurred and Elkin had an ectopic pregnancy, requiring emergency surgery. At that point, her diary of dailiness became a study of the counterpoint between the everyday and the Event, mediated through early twenty-first century technology, and observed from the height of a bus seat. No. 91/92 is a love letter to Paris, and a meditation on how it has changed in the two decades the author has lived there, evolving from the twentieth century into the twenty-first, from analog to digital.

Paris Metro Photo

Author :
Publisher : Actes Sud Editions
ISBN 13 : 9782330065911
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (659 download)

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Download or read book Paris Metro Photo written by and published by Actes Sud Editions. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Brassa to William Klein: a luxurious homage to the world's most iconic subway At over 300 pages and with around 250 images, this delightful volume looks at the close relationship between photography and the heyday of the Paris metro, covering over a century of photographic documents. The major figures of photography all snapped the Paris metro, from the humanists--Doisneau, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Brassa , Boubat, Izis, Kollar, Ronis and more--to photojournalists such as Robert Capa, William Klein and Van der Keuken, in addition to the scores of photojournalists who passed through the city. In 1900, as the first metro rolled from west to east across Paris, from Porte Maillot to Porte de Vincennes, photography had already been around for half a century. Turn-of-the-century technological advances had created smaller, lighter cameras--the first Kodaks--which introduced the practice to a wider market. As Parisians fell in love with their new mode of transport, photography became a more widespread pastime. All genres and photographic practices are represented in this overview, from photojournalism to photo stories, street photography, fashion photography, architectural photography and industrial photography. The resulting volume is a magnificent and charming hybrid: a history of the fascinating development of the Paris metro--long a cultural symbol of France, Art Nouveau and urban technological innovation--in all its diversity, alongside a history of photography in Paris from the early 20th century to the present.

The Paris Architect

Author : Charles Belfoure
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1402284322
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Paris Architect written by Charles Belfoure and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! "A gripping page-turner...a riveting reminder of sacrifices made by history's most unlikely heroes." —Kristina McMorris, New York Times bestselling author of Sold on a Monday and The Ways We Hide An extraordinary book about a gifted architect who reluctantly begins a secret life of resistance, devising ingenious hiding places for Jews in World War II Paris. In 1942 Paris, architect Lucien Bernard accepts a commission that will bring him a great deal of money – and maybe get him killed. All he has to do is design a secret hiding place for a Jewish man, a space so invisible that even the most determined German officer won't find it while World War II rages on. He sorely needs the money, and outwitting the Nazis who have occupied his beloved city is a challenge he can't resist. Soon Lucien is hiding more souls and saving lives. But when one of his hideouts fails horribly, and the problem of where to conceal a Jew becomes much more personal, and he can no longer ignore what's at stake. Book clubs will pore over the questions Charles Belfoure raises about justice, resistance, and just how far we'll go to make things right. Also by Charles Belfoure: The Fallen Architect House of Thieves

Metro / New York / London / Paris

Author :
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780764363955
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (639 download)

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Download or read book Metro / New York / London / Paris written by and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subways are a greatequalizer that supersede social barriers separating people in theaboveground city. In his microcosmic portrayalsof everyday human dramas and performances, renowned photographer Herb Robinson profoundly capturesthe interconnection and alienation of human beings underground and onthe move. Readers experience the excitement and extraordinary diversityof three celebrated metropolises in motion. METRO / New York / London / Paristells a global-local story of immigrants and natives, showing how ourworlds are linked and enriched through our common humanity. Innovative concepts and design by Eve Sandler transport viewers forward in this subterraneanworld. Woventhroughout, commentary by Lady Gaga,James Baldwin, King George Vl, Coco Chanel, and others imparts historicalcontext, insider insights, and humor. METRO provides many meaningfulwindows into the character of each city and its inhabitants, whileilluminating modern issues of identity, equality, and the humancondition.

In the Metro

Author : Marc Augé
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816634378
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book In the Metro written by Marc Augé and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tourists climb the Eiffel Tower to see Paris. Parisians know that to really see the city you must descend into the metro. In this revelatory book, Marc Auge takes readers below Paris in a work that is both an ethnography of the city and a personal narrative. Guiding us through history, memory, and physical space, Auge juxtaposes the romance of the metro with the reality of multiethnic urban France. His work is part autobiography, with impressions from a lifetime riding the trains; part meditation on self and memory reflected in the people and places underneath Paris; part analysis of a place where the third world and the first world meet, where remnants of cultures move and press together; and part a reflection on anthropology in an era of globalization and urban development. Although he is a pillar of French thought, In the Metro is Auge's first major critical and creative work translated into English. It shows him to be firmly rooted in a tradition of literary ethnography that reaches back to Claude Levi-Strauss and Michel de Certeau, but also engaged in current theoretical debates in literary and cultural studies. In Auge's idiosyncratic and innovative approach, the act of observing the quotidian is elevated to an art. The writer and his history become part of the field he observes, and anthropology interacts with a site -- urban life -- usually reserved for sociology and cultural studies. Throughout, Auge reveals a passion for his milieu, seeing the metro as a place rich with history and literature -- an eclectic egalitarian society.

Zazie in the Metro

Author : Raymond Queneau
Publisher : Calder Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Zazie in the Metro written by Raymond Queneau and published by Calder Publications. This book was released on 1982 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Zazie in the Metro

Author : Raymond Queneau
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780142180044
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Zazie in the Metro written by Raymond Queneau and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-11-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Impish, foul-mouthed Zazie arrives in Paris from the country to stay with Gabriel, her female-impersonator uncle. All she really wants to do is ride the metro, but finding it shut because of a strike, Zazie looks for other means of amusement and is soon caught up in a comic adventure that becomes wilder and more manic by the minute. In 1960 Queneau's cult classic was made into a hugely successful film by Louis Malle. Packed full of word play and phonetic games, Zazie in the Metro remains as stylish and witty as ever. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Paris Metro Handbook

Author : Brian Hardy
Publisher : Capital Transport
ISBN 13 : 9781854142122
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book Paris Metro Handbook written by Brian Hardy and published by Capital Transport. This book was released on 1999 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Truths and Triumphs of Grace Atherton

Author : Anstey Harris
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 147117381X
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book The Truths and Triumphs of Grace Atherton written by Anstey Harris and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Richard and Judy Book Club pick, set in Paris and Italy, The Truths and Triumphs of Grace Atherton is a beautiful and uplifting exploration of love, loss and hope ‘The real truth and triumph of this gem of a story is simple: it is one of the best and most gripping descriptions of heartbreak that either of us have ever read’ Richard and Judy’s review Grace Atherton, a talented cellist, is in love with David. Together in their apartment in Paris, Grace and David are happy until an unexpected event changes everything. Nadia is seventeen and furious. She knows that love will only let her down: if she is going to succeed it will be on her own terms. At eighty-six Maurice Williams has discovered a lot about love in his long life, and even more about people. And yet he keeps secrets. When Grace’s life falls apart in the most shocking of ways Maurice and Nadia come to her rescue, helping her to find happiness and hope through the healing power of friendship. Praise for The Truths and Triumphs of Grace Atherton 'Glorious on so many levels' A J Pearce, author of Dear Mrs Bird 'Lose yourself among beautiful symphonies, the romantic cities of Europe and quirky characters ... a triumph' Woman's Weekly 'A powerful and passionate novel, awash with heartbreak but still an uplifting tale of friendship and rebirth. Five stars' Daily Express 'Full of hope and charm' Libby Page, author of The Lido 'A hymn to friendship, to getting back up and finding happiness where none seemed possible' Katie Fforde Pre-order Anstey Harris' wonderful new book Where We Belong now - ISBN 97811473837