Our favourite ENGLISH LANGUAGE BOOKSHOPS in Paris are:-

 

 

READING LIST

Any of these books will enhance your time in Paris, and are available from the above stores. Our recommended books are listed by 'walks'.

Latin Quarter and its writers

George Orwell : Down and Out in Paris and London
Ernest Hemingway : A Moveable Feast, The Sun Also Rises, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, The Green Hills of Africa, A Farewell to Arms
James Joyce : Ulysses, Finnegan's Wake
Honoré de Balzac : Old Goriot (Père Goriot)
Gertrude Stein: An Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Paris France
Alice Toklas: Cook Book
Eliot Paul : A Narrow Street (about rue de la Huchette in the 1920s)
Katherine Mansfield : Je ne Parle pas Français (Short story in English)
Jean Rhys : Quartet, Good Morning Midnight, After Leaving Mr McKenzie, (about Paris in the 1920s) The Wide Sargasso Sea (Story of Mr Rochester's wife in "Jane Eyre")
W. Somerset Maugham : The Moon and Sixpence (loosely based on story of Gauguin), The Razor's Edge
F. Scott Fitzgerald : Tender is the Night
Henry Miller : Tropic of Cancer (Banned for its sexual frankness!)
André Gide: The Vatican Cellars
Simone de Beauvoir: She Came to Stay (L'Invitée)
Film : Camille Claudel (She was a talented sculptor and Rodin's mistress, her works can be seen at the Rodin Museum)

 

 

Montmartre

Jean Renoir : Renoir my Father
Marcel Aymé : Le Passe Muraille (The Man who could go Through Walls)

 

 

The Marais and Versailles

Nancy Mitford: The Sun King
Mme de Sevigné: Letters

 

 

Other books set in Paris

Colette: Cheri, The Ripening Seed, The Cat, Paris from my Window.
Anita Brookner: A Start in Life
Jean-Paul Sartre: Nausea
Emile Zola: Nana, The Masterpiece (about 19thC Paris and its artists)

 

 

 

 

'The D-Day Landings ' written by the historian James M'Kenzie-Hall and read by David Browne, is a clear and concise re-telling of the events that took place on June 6th 1944. This is the story of the largest seaborne invasion in modern History. The CD is accompanied by a neat map that enables you to follow the story as it unfolds. Wonderful listening, available at the Red Wheelbarrow Bookstore or from Paris Walks. 17 Euros including postage and packing.

Paris Then and Now, is a beautiful record of the city, past and present, by Peter and Oriel Caine, founders of Paris Walks.

The book is available in Paris bookstores, but also available in major bookstores in the USA(Barnes and Noble)and through Amazon world wide.

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