Author: Samuel Griswold GoodrichPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Paris (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Sketches of Paris and the Parisians
Author: Samuel Griswold GoodrichPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Paris (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Paris of the Parisians (Classic Reprint)
Author: John F. MacdonaldPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780265252130
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Excerpt from Paris of the Parisians The purpose of these sketches is not political nor yet didactic. No charge is laid upon me to teach the French nation its duties, to reprove it for its follies. Nor yet is it my design to hold up Paris of the Parisians as an example of naughtiness, nor even of virtue, to English readers. A student of human life still in my humanities, my purpose is purely interpretative. I would endeavour to trans late into English some Paris scenes, in such a way as to give a true impression of the movement, personages, sounds, colours, and atmosphere per vaded With joy of living which belongs to them. These impressions Which I have myself received, and now desire to communicate, are not the result of a general survey of Paris taken from some lofty summit. I have not looked down upon the capital of F rance from the top of the Eiffel Tower; nor yet from the terrace of the Sacre Coeur; nor yet from the balcony among the chimeres of Notre. 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.
Paris Sketch Book (Classic Reprint)
Author: W. M. ThackerayPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781332800087
Category : Europe, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Excerpt from Paris Sketch Book About half of the sketches in these volumes have already appeared in print, in various periodical works. A part of the text of one tale, and the plots of two others, have been borrowed from French originals; the other stories, which are, in the main, true, have been written upon facts and characters that came within the Author's observation dur ing a residence in Paris. 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.
Parisian Sketches
Author: Joris-Karl HuysmansPublisher: Dedalus European Classics
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
First published in 1880, same year as Edgar Degas' The Dancing Lesson and Edouard Manet's solo show of brasserie paintings at La Vie Moderne gallery, J.-K. Huysmans' Parisian Sketches shares with these vibrant Impressionist works a fascination with the contemporary life of Paris, an exuberant Paris in the era of the Opera Garnier and the Folies-Bergeres. Like the striking images of the early Impressionists, whom Huysmans championed when it was unfashionable to do so, Parisian Sketches is an all-out assault on the visual senses. Composed of a series of intense, meticulously observed impressions - of cafe concerts and circus performers, of streetwalkers and hot-chestnut sellers, of run-down slums and forgotten quarters in the grimy, shiny 'City of Light'- Parisian Sketches recreates the Paris of the bal masque and the cancan, the brasseries à femme and the buveurs d'absinthe, all captured with an intimacy and an immediacy that confirms Huysmans as one of the masters of 19th century French prose.
Sketches of Paris and the Parisians
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780461340518
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Paris Sketches (Classic Reprint)
Author: Louis Judson SwinburnePublisher:
ISBN: 9781330646939
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Excerpt from Paris Sketches It was all arranged one pleasant evenings as we sat in front of the Cafe Americain. The lines of communication between Paris and the rest of the world had been cut off, and the siege had commenced in very truth; yet it was still possible, by the exercise of due influence with plenipotentiary powers, to penetrate the circle du fer, which the Prussians had formed round the city Only the other day, a large party of Americans and English had succeeded in getting through safely to London. But Frank - Frank Baldwin, our dear old friend and crony in those days, - had no desire to leave the invested city so at least we learned for the first time, with any degree of certainty, that evening at the cafe. 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."
Paris the Beautiful
Author: Lilian WhitingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Pictures of Paris Some Parisians (Classic Reprint)
Author: John N. RaphaelPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780365241041
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Excerpt from Pictures of Paris Some Parisians Harold was saying that there hardly seemed to be sufficient to make one of him, and the Vicomte, whom' we love to have about with us as much as possible, because his English teaches us more about idiomatic French than we could ever learn from grammars, began explaining that he meant that besides Auguste, there was another tiny little man, named Delphin, in the same line of business, when Theophile, the burly drawer, leaned forward over his beer-frothed zinc-covered counter and reminded us that the door to the concert room was open. So we took the hint and went in. 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.
The Paris Sketch Book
Author: William Makepeace ThackerayPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780267762248
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
Excerpt from The Paris Sketch Book: Art Criticisms Due warning was given, in the Preface of this edition, that though the main principle of its arrangement would be chronological, a merely rigid consistency would not be allowed to prevail in this respect. In these earlier volumes especially. Though each is carefully planned so as to present. As a whole a more advanced stage than the one preceding, the structure must. Necessarily and Otherwise. Be clinker built. -overlapping. That is to say. In such a sense that some work in each will be earlier than some in its fore runner. Necessarily, for it would be preposterous to disturb Thackeray's own arrangement. Of much early work. And some almost of his very earliest 111 The Paris Sketch Book. Otherwise than necessarily - in order (for reasons to be presently set forth) to get together the rather frequent expressions of the author's criticism in Art-matters which key on to much of the Sketch Book. I had at first preferred as an alternative the grouping of the Parisian matter such as the Second Funeral of Napoleon and the other Parisian Corsair and Britannia articles (see next volume) together; but. On the. Whole the present arrangement seemed more convenient. 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.
My Paris
Author: Edward KingPublisher:
ISBN: 9781527682214
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Excerpt from My Paris: French Character SketchesAdam made no apologies for being; neither does my book. Every man sees Paris differently; mine was the Paris of a stranger, - a young man; time, Exposition year; and my business was to indite letters to the Spn'ngfield Republican and Boston T ranscm'pt. The widg popularity given to the correspondence through the medium of those excellent journals was as unexpected as generous opportunities for the study of certain phases of Paris life were never better than in 1867, and the numerous demands for a resume, in substantial form, of a year's experience in the French capi tal, have prompted this volume of character sketches.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.
