2 devastating stories of faith and sacrifice from Balzac's panorama of nineteenth-century French life, La Comédie Humaine.
The Atheist’s Mass
Tag: France
A Man’s Head
Maigret believes he has got the wrong man. But no one else is a suspect. And the convict is about to go to the gallows.....
Citizens
This book will give the reader an understanding of the tragedy of the French Revolution. A Revolution that failed to feed the population, a Revolution that failed to protect the population from outside invaders, and a Revolution that failed to protect the population from corruption and tyranny. A failure on all accounts.
Satori à Paris
by Jack Kerouac ISBN: 978-2-07-296188-5 First published 1966 Translated from the English by Jean Autret 224 pages (112 English / 112 French) Publisher: folio-lesite.fr Cover photo by Giovanni Coruzzi / Leemage 4 / 5 Stars An interesting book, about Jack Kerouac trying to find his descendants in Brittany, France. This copy is part of the… Continue reading Satori à Paris
The Short Reign of Pippin IV
by John Steinbeck ISBN: 0-330-02163-X First published 1957 159 pages Publisher: Pan Books in association with William Heinemann Cover illustration N/A 4 / 5 Stars A strange type of book by John Steinbeck, 'Winner of the 1962 Novel Prize for Literature'. Part satire, part comment, the book asks the reader the question, what would you… Continue reading The Short Reign of Pippin IV
The First World War
by A.J.P. Taylor ISBN: 978-0-140-02481-4 First published 1963 287 pages Publisher: Penguin Books Cover photograph: British soldier at Ypres (Paul Popper/Popperfoto/Getty Images) 5 / 5 Stars Very interesting book, and a very useful book if you are to visit the battlefields, cemeteries and graveyards of World War in Northern France or Türkiye. And there are… Continue reading The First World War
The Basque History of the World
by Mark Kurlansky ISBN: 978-0-099-28413-0 First published 1999 359 pages Publisher: vintage-books.co.uk Cover illustration by Nikolai Punin 5 / 5 Stars The story of a people that has never had its own nation-state and yet has thousands of years of history. They sailed the Atlantis, not only the Bay of Biscay. They could have found… Continue reading The Basque History of the World
History Of The Cathars
A really interesting introduction to the history of the Cathar movement.
Inspector Cadaver
by Georges Simenon ISBN: 978-0-241-18847-7 First published 1944 170 pages Publisher: Penguin Classics Cover photograph: Harry Gruyaert / Magnum Photos Translated by William Hobson 5 / 5 Stars Maigret doesn't so much solve crime as allow the truth to seep from the characters involved and therefore the 'crime' to solve itself... Often he is no… Continue reading Inspector Cadaver
Moderato Cantabile
By Marguerite Duras ISBN: 978-1-84749-052-0 First published 1958 122 pages Publisher: Les Éditions de Minuit / oneworldclassics.com Translated by Richard Seaver 4/5 Stars Intriguing short novel translated from the French original. A tale of forbidden passion, unleashed by the tragic events that have unfolded at a café. Marguerite describes a little industrial french coastal town. Factories,… Continue reading Moderato Cantabile
Madam Maigret’s Friend
An Inspector Maigret novel by Georges Simenon ISBN: 978-0-241-24016-8 First published 1950 180 pages Cover design: Alceu Chiesorin Nunes Cover photo: Harry Gruyaert / Magnum Photos Translated by Howard Curtis 3/5 Stars A wonderfully easy read by Georges Simenon. Georges was born in Belgium in 1903 and died in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1989. Maigret is… Continue reading Madam Maigret’s Friend
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