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Author : Henry Colburn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783957820426
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (24 download)
Download or read book The American in Paris written by Henry Colburn and published by . This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jill Jonnes
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101052511
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Eiffel's Tower written by Jill Jonnes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the world-famous monument and the extraordinary world’s fair that introduced it, by the author of Conquering Gotham and Urban Forests In this first general history of the Eiffel Tower in English, Jill Jonnes-acclaimed author of Conquering Gotham-offers an eye- opening look not only at the construction of one of the modern world's most iconic structures, but also the epochal event that surrounded its arrival as a wonder of the world. In this marvelously entertaining portrait of Belle Époque France, fear and loathing over Eiffel's brash design share the spotlight with the celebrities that made the 1889 Exposition Universelle an event to remember-including Buffalo Bill and his sharpshooter Annie Oakley, Thomas Edison, and artists Whistler, Gauguin, and van Gogh. Eiffel's Tower is a richly textured portrait of an era at the dawn of modernity, reveling in the limitless promise of the future.
Author : John Sanderson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781021717771
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (177 download)
Download or read book The American in Paris; Volume 2 written by John Sanderson and published by . This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Siobhan Curham
Publisher : Bookouture
ISBN 13 : 9781800190115
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book An American in Paris written by Siobhan Curham and published by Bookouture. This book was released on 2021-01-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paris, 1940: Walking through Montmartre that morning was like the eerie calm right before a storm. The roads were deserted. We carried on, arm in arm, and then finally, we saw them. Columns and columns of soldiers, spreading through the streets like a toxic grey vapour. 'You must write about this, ' he whispered to me. 'You must write about the day freedom left Paris.' As Nazi troops occupy the City of Lights, American journalist Florence is determined to do everything she can to save her adopted home and the man she loves. Florence had arrived in Paris in 1937 and on a beautiful summer's day, met and fell in love with Otto, a Jewish artist from Austria, who had fled persecution in his homeland. But as swastikas are draped along the city's wide boulevards, everything Otto was running from seems to have caught up with him. Both Florence and Otto begin lending their talents to the Resistance, working to sabotage the Germans right under their noses. Florence's society columns that, before the war were filled with tales of glamorous Parisian parties, now document life under occupation and hide coded messages for those fighting outside France for freedom. While Otto risks arrest in order to pin up the anti-Nazi posters he designs by candlelight in their tiny apartment. But with every passing day, things become more dangerous for Otto to remain in Paris. If Florence risks everything by accepting a secret mission, can she ensure his survival so that they can be reunited once the war is over? A sweeping wartime story that will capture your heart and never let it go. Fans of The Alice Network, The Lost Girls of Paris and My Name is Eva will be absolutely gripped from the very first page. Readers LOVE An American in Paris 'An enthralling story that puts readers in the middle of the chaos surrounding World War Two... Grabs readers from the beginning and won't let them go until they finish the last page... I loved absolutely everything about this novel and won't hesitate to claim it as my favourite historical fiction read of 2020.' Goodreads Reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Author : David McCullough
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416576894
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book The Greater Journey written by David McCullough and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 bestseller that tells the remarkable story of the generations of American artists, writers, and doctors who traveled to Paris, fell in love with the city and its people, and changed America through what they learned, told by America’s master historian, David McCullough. Not all pioneers went west. In The Greater Journey, David McCullough tells the enthralling, inspiring—and until now, untold—story of the adventurous American artists, writers, doctors, politicians, and others who set off for Paris in the years between 1830 and 1900, hungry to learn and to excel in their work. What they achieved would profoundly alter American history. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first female doctor in America, was one of this intrepid band. Another was Charles Sumner, whose encounters with black students at the Sorbonne inspired him to become the most powerful voice for abolition in the US Senate. Friends James Fenimore Cooper and Samuel F. B. Morse worked unrelentingly every day in Paris, Morse not only painting what would be his masterpiece, but also bringing home his momentous idea for the telegraph. Harriet Beecher Stowe traveled to Paris to escape the controversy generated by her book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Three of the greatest American artists ever—sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, painters Mary Cassatt and John Singer Sargent—flourished in Paris, inspired by French masters. Almost forgotten today, the heroic American ambassador Elihu Washburne bravely remained at his post through the Franco-Prussian War, the long Siege of Paris, and the nightmare of the Commune. His vivid diary account of the starvation and suffering endured by the people of Paris is published here for the first time. Telling their stories with power and intimacy, McCullough brings us into the lives of remarkable men and women who, in Saint-Gaudens’ phrase, longed “to soar into the blue.”
Author : John Sanderson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483591387
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (913 download)
Download or read book The American in Paris, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint) written by John Sanderson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-21 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The American in Paris, Vol. 2 of 2 Mass at St. Roch for Admiral de Rigny - The Abbe Lacordaire at Notre Dame - State of the French church - St. Genevieve - St. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Henry Colburn
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3956562275
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (565 download)
Download or read book The American in Paris written by Henry Colburn and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nachdruck der englischsprachigen Originalausgabe aus dem Jahr 1838.
Author : Harriet Welty Rochefort
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312261498
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (614 download)
Download or read book French Fried written by Harriet Welty Rochefort and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-03-07 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, born in Shenandoah, Iowa, moved to France and eventually had to learn to cook "à la française." She shares her adventures and misadventures and many recipes.
Author : Nancy K. Miller
Publisher : Seal Press
ISBN 13 : 1580054897
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Breathless written by Nancy K. Miller and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1960s, most middle-class American women in their twenties had their lives laid out for them: marriage, children, and life in the suburbs. Most, but not all. Breathless is the story of a girl who represents those who rebelled against conventional expectations. Paris was a magnet for those eager to resist domesticity, and like many young women of the decade, Nancy K. Miller was enamored of everything French—from perfume and Hermès scarves to the writing of Simone de Beauvoir and the New Wave films of Jeanne Moreau. After graduating from Barnard College in 1961, Miller set out for a year in Paris, with a plan to take classes at the Sorbonne and live out a great romantic life inspired by the movies. After a string of sexual misadventures, she gave up her short-lived freedom and married an American expatriate who promised her a lifetime of three-star meals and five-star hotels. But her husband wasn't who he said he was, and she eventually had to leave Paris and her dreams behind. This stunning memoir chronicles a young woman’s coming-of-age tale, and offers a glimpse into the intimate lives of girls before feminism.
Author : Jean Paul Carlhian
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847843408
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)
Download or read book Americans in Paris written by Jean Paul Carlhian and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2014 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book presents for the first time a comprehensive overview of the seminal early work of a century of American architects--including Richard Morris Hunt, H. H. Richardson, Raymond Hood, and Charles Follen McKim--who studied at the prestigious and influential École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, before going on to design and build many of this nation's most important buildings and monuments."--Cover, page [4].
Author : Chris Ames
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781607815976
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (159 download)
Download or read book An American (Homeless) in Paris written by Chris Ames and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before a post-divorce road trip Chris Ames had been ensconced in French domesticity, with a wife, two children, and a regular job. Returning to Paris after that trip, he became an American vagabond and seeker who, lacking sufficient means and motivation to pay the rent and invest again in permanence, opted for homelessness. He soon found an unexpected place to pitch his tent--an abandoned golf course. Ames recounts a full year spent living there, with little baggage, through snow and heat, while commuting to his job as an English teacher in the city. Developing his urban-survivor skills, he rekindles relationships, starts others, offers glimpses of Parisian society--homeless and not--and ruminates on direction and the lack thereof. Ames circles serious questions, rarely losing a sense of irony, bewilderment, or amusement, especially at his circumstances, with their inherent discomforts, risks, and not-so-reassuring self-revelation. As readers see him stumble into renewed social bonds, his skewed searching and unconventional existence will engage and sometimes befuddle them. "I'm not saying become homeless, but do understand it opens many doors, and helps us appreciate the doors we can close."--from the introduction Winner of the Nonfiction Award in the Utah Division of Arts and Museums Original Writing Competition
Author : Nancy L. Green
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022613752X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book The Other Americans in Paris written by Nancy L. Green and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-07-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “thorough and perceptive” portrait of the not-so-famous expatriates of the City of Light (The Wall Street Journal). History may remember the American artists, writers, and musicians of the Left Bank best, but the reality is that there were many more American businessmen, socialites, manufacturers’ representatives, and lawyers living on the other side of the River Seine. Be they newly minted American countesses married to foreigners with impressive titles or American soldiers who had settled in France after World War I with their French wives, they provide a new view of the notion of expatriates. Historian Nancy L. Green introduces us for the first time to a long-forgotten part of the American overseas population—predecessors to today’s expats—while exploring the politics of citizenship and the business relationships, love lives, and wealth (or in some cases, poverty) of Americans who staked their claim to the City of Light. The Other Americans in Paris shows that elite migration is a part of migration, and that debates over Americanization have deep roots in the twentieth century.
Author : Craig Carlson
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1492632139
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (926 download)
Download or read book Pancakes in Paris written by Craig Carlson and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller Paris was practically perfect... Craig Carlson was the last person anyone would expect to open an American diner in Paris. He came from humble beginnings in a working-class town in Connecticut, had never worked in a restaurant, and didn't know anything about starting a brand-new business. But from his first visit to Paris, Craig knew he had found the city of his dreams, although one thing was still missing—the good ol' American breakfast he loved so much. Pancakes in Paris is the story of Craig tackling the impossible—from raising the money to fund his dream to tracking down international suppliers for "exotic" American ingredients... and even finding love along the way. His diner, Breakfast In America, is now a renowned tourist destination, and the story of how it came to be is just as delicious and satisfying as the classic breakfast that tops its menu.
Author : John von Sothen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0735224838
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Monsieur Mediocre written by John von Sothen and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "John von Sothen fell in love with Paris through the stories his mother told of her year spent there as a student. After falling for and marrying the French waitress he meets in New York, von Sothen follows his mother's dream and moves to Paris. But fifteen years in, he's finally ready to admit his mother's Paris is mostly a fantasy"--
Author : T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 143845502X
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Bricktop's Paris written by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2015-01-31 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2015 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Longlisted for the 2015 American Library in Paris Book Award During the Jazz Age, France became a place where an African American woman could realize personal freedom and creativity, in narrative or in performance, in clay or on canvas, in life and in love. These women were participants in the life of the American expatriate colony, which included F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, and Cole Porter, and they commingled with bohemian avant-garde writers and artists like Picasso, Breton, Colette, and Matisse. Bricktop's Paris introduces the reader to twenty-five of these women and the city they encountered. Following this nonfiction account, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting provides a fictionalized autobiography of Ada "Bricktop" Smith, which brings the players from the world of nonfiction into a Paris whose elegance masks a thriving underworld.
Author : Susan Kiernan-Lewis
Publisher : Susan Kiernan-Lewis
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Déjà Dead written by Susan Kiernan-Lewis and published by Susan Kiernan-Lewis. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Things can get pretty dark in the City of Light. Claire Baskerville is a sixty-something American who finds herself alone in Paris when her husband is brutally murdered. Reeling from the onslaught of devastating secrets he left behind Claire is stunned to realize she no longer knows who to trust. She only knows she can’t move forward until she finds out the truth behind who killed her husband. In spite of a genetic brain anomaly that makes it impossible for her to remember faces –even ones she’d seen just moments before, and all alone in a foreign city, Claire doggedly collects the clues that will lead her to her husband’s killer. Unfortunately, the closer she gets to the truth, the more determined that killer is to make sure she never leaves Paris alive.
Author : John Sanderson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265204436
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (44 download)
Download or read book The American in Paris, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) written by John Sanderson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The American in Paris, Vol. 1 of 2 Havre - Description of the town - The map seller - Manners of the people - Law of inheritance - State of agriculture - Town and country poverty - Foreign trade - The custom house, a school for perjury - System of passports - The French diligence - Rouen The cathedral - Joan of Arc 13 - 30. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
