Author: Ellis Cruse
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781856930550
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Chateau de Ma Mere
Author: Ellis Cruse
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781856930550
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781856930550
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
My Father's Glory ; And, My Mother's Castle
Author: Marcel Pagnol
Publisher: MacMillan
ISBN: 9780330321907
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
With warmth, lucidity and good humour, Pagnol, a boy from the city, recounts the glorious summer days he spent exploring the sun-baked Provençal countryside. He vividly captures the atmosphere of a childhood filled with the simple pleasures: a meal, a joke, an outing shared with his close-knit and loving family. These heart-warming stories remind us of how children can invest the smallest event or statement with incredible significance, how mysterious the workings of the adult world can seem to them and how painful the learning process can often prove. However, Pagnol’s writing is filled with enormous optimism and delight. And his triumph in these classic memoirs is to have created that rare thing, a work suffused with joy. ‘Pagnol’s place in the history of French culture is secure. The Prousts and Sartres may be admired, but Pagnol is loved’ Times Literary Supplement
Publisher: MacMillan
ISBN: 9780330321907
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
With warmth, lucidity and good humour, Pagnol, a boy from the city, recounts the glorious summer days he spent exploring the sun-baked Provençal countryside. He vividly captures the atmosphere of a childhood filled with the simple pleasures: a meal, a joke, an outing shared with his close-knit and loving family. These heart-warming stories remind us of how children can invest the smallest event or statement with incredible significance, how mysterious the workings of the adult world can seem to them and how painful the learning process can often prove. However, Pagnol’s writing is filled with enormous optimism and delight. And his triumph in these classic memoirs is to have created that rare thing, a work suffused with joy. ‘Pagnol’s place in the history of French culture is secure. The Prousts and Sartres may be admired, but Pagnol is loved’ Times Literary Supplement
The Time of Secrets
Author: Marcel Pagnol
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aubagne (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aubagne (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Pagnol, La Gloire de Mon Père, And, Le Château de Ma Mère
Author: David Coward
Publisher: Critical Guides to French Text
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Publisher: Critical Guides to French Text
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
A Year in Provence
Author: Peter Mayle
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307755495
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to realize a long-cherished dream and actually move into a 200-year-old stone farmhouse in the remote country of the Lubéron with his wife and two large dogs. He endures January's frosty mistral as it comes howling down the Rhône Valley, discovers the secrets of goat racing through the middle of town, and delights in the glorious regional cuisine. A Year in Provence transports us into all the earthy pleasures of Provençal life and lets us live vicariously at a tempo governed by seasons, not by days.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307755495
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to realize a long-cherished dream and actually move into a 200-year-old stone farmhouse in the remote country of the Lubéron with his wife and two large dogs. He endures January's frosty mistral as it comes howling down the Rhône Valley, discovers the secrets of goat racing through the middle of town, and delights in the glorious regional cuisine. A Year in Provence transports us into all the earthy pleasures of Provençal life and lets us live vicariously at a tempo governed by seasons, not by days.
The Time of Love
Author: Marcel Pagnol
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Le Chateau de Ma Mère
Author: Marcel Pagnol
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, French
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, French
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Contemporary French Cinema
Author: Guy Austin
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719046117
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Examines popular French film of the last 25 years. Charts recent developments in all genres since the New Wave, including the heritage film, the thriller, the war film, `cinema du look'. Other topics include: representations of sexuality; the work of women film-makers. Includes a filmography.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719046117
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Examines popular French film of the last 25 years. Charts recent developments in all genres since the New Wave, including the heritage film, the thriller, the war film, `cinema du look'. Other topics include: representations of sexuality; the work of women film-makers. Includes a filmography.
Le Chateau de Ma Mere
The Castle of Whispers
Author: Carole Martinez
Publisher: Europa Editions
ISBN: 1609451929
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
This Goncourt Lyceens Award–winning novel is “a powerfully visualized magic-realist fable” of secrets, faith, and female defiance in twelfth century France (Kirkus Reviews). France, 1187. On the day of her wedding, the beautiful fifteen-year-old Esclarmonde scandalizes the court when she refuses to marry the knight chosen by her father, the brutish lord of the domain of Whispers. Defying her father’s wishes, she vows to give herself to God. To punish her willfulness, her father imprisons her in a cell adjoining the castle’s chapel. Instead of the peaceful solitude she sought, Esclarmonde finds in her cell the crossroads between the living and the dead. Walled in, with nothing but a single barred window connecting her to the outside world, Esclarmonde exerts a mysterious power over the kingdom. The virgin sorceress reaches a saint-like status, and men and women journey from far and wide to hear her speak. When even her own father falls under her sway, Esclarmonde persuades him to undertake an ill-fated war in the Holy Land.
Publisher: Europa Editions
ISBN: 1609451929
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
This Goncourt Lyceens Award–winning novel is “a powerfully visualized magic-realist fable” of secrets, faith, and female defiance in twelfth century France (Kirkus Reviews). France, 1187. On the day of her wedding, the beautiful fifteen-year-old Esclarmonde scandalizes the court when she refuses to marry the knight chosen by her father, the brutish lord of the domain of Whispers. Defying her father’s wishes, she vows to give herself to God. To punish her willfulness, her father imprisons her in a cell adjoining the castle’s chapel. Instead of the peaceful solitude she sought, Esclarmonde finds in her cell the crossroads between the living and the dead. Walled in, with nothing but a single barred window connecting her to the outside world, Esclarmonde exerts a mysterious power over the kingdom. The virgin sorceress reaches a saint-like status, and men and women journey from far and wide to hear her speak. When even her own father falls under her sway, Esclarmonde persuades him to undertake an ill-fated war in the Holy Land.