| Languedoc-Roussillon Bookshop: Literature Maigret on the Riviera |  Georges Simenon, Geoffrey Sainsbury (Translator)
ISBN: 0156551586
Sorry - no summary available. | | BUY IT! | 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. | | BUY IT! | 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) | | BUY IT! | Signs of the Heart: Love and Death in Languedoc |  Christopher Hope
ISBN: 0330367048
Hope's dispatches from the French Front - from the villages, cafes, bars and junk shops of Languedoc - do not describe rural idyll but a world of rogues and raconteurs, lovers and losers whose two preoccupations are inextricably entwined: love and...(read more) | | BUY IT! | Songs of Blue and Gold |  Deborah Lawrenson
ISBN: 0099505193
Sometimes the key to the future lies in the past...In the horseshoe bay of Kalami in Corfu, a tumultuous love affair begins between a renowned novelist and a woman escaping scandal. Years later, her daughter Melissa, running from her own past, returns...(read more) | | BUY IT! | Tender is the Night |  F. Scott Fitzgerald
ISBN: 068480154X
A novel set on the French Riviera during the 1920s. A beautiful young film star becomes entangled in the messy marriage of two well-off Americans, and as the fragile structures of the marriage fall apart, the personal tolls are found to be almost too...(read more) | | BUY IT! | 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) | | BUY IT! | 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) | | BUY IT! | 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) | | BUY IT! | 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) | | BUY IT! |
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