Paris
Françoise Sagan
A young student's affair with an older married man brings pleasure and disillusion into tension, exploring the uncertain boundaries of romantic freedom.
Nonfiction Paris
Noel Barber
An American journalist witnesses love and resistance in occupied France, where private relationships develop against the dangers and divisions of war.
Literary fiction Paris
Patty Lurie
Day trips follow the landscapes that inspired Monet, Cézanne and fellow Impressionists, connecting paintings with the places beyond Paris.
Biography Paris
Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway remembers youthful Paris through cafés, friendship and precarious meals, making daily rituals part of a city's enduring imaginative hold.
Memoir Paris
Janine Boissard
A woman starts again after her husband leaves her, discovering how a broken marriage can open unsettling possibilities for a different life.
Literary fiction Paris
Simone Signoret
Two Jewish families from Ukraine and Poland settle in Paris after the Russian Revolution, building new lives amid the memories of displacement.
Literary fiction Paris
Erich Maria Remarque
Refugees from Nazism seek precarious lives in prewar Paris, where displacement and attachment unfold beneath the shadow of another approaching conflict.
Nonfiction Paris
Bonnie G. Smith
A Paris concierge's memories offer a ground-level view of twentieth-century France, where an apartment building becomes a window onto history.
History Paris
Richard Grayson
A Sûreté detective investigates a crime of passion, moving through a vividly evoked Paris as private emotions become matters of police inquiry.
Crime & mystery Paris
Arlen J. Hansen
Hundreds of entries explore expatriate literary Paris, moving through thirty-two neighbourhoods to trace the city's writers, meeting places and cultural connections.
History Paris
Colette
A Parisian girl trained for life as a courtesan unsettles family expectations, as Colette examines love within a world governed by social convention.
Literary fiction Paris
Jean Rhys
Returning to Paris after youth has faded, a woman confronts the memories and loneliness that familiar streets can make painfully immediate.
Literary fiction Paris
Robert E. Gajdusek
Hemingway's words meet photographs of his Paris, bringing the locations remembered by him and his friends into an illuminating visual journey.
Nonfiction Paris
Romain Gary
A Paris taxi driver's work for a charity leads into an unusual story, bringing everyday service into contact with an expansive human world.
Nonfiction Paris
Georges Perec
A single day in a Paris apartment building opens into its occupants' stories, revealing an intricate world hidden behind ordinary doors.
Nonfiction Paris
Noel R. Fitch
Literary stories lead through Parisian cafés and bars, linking places to the writers whose conversations and work gave them lasting significance.
Nonfiction Paris
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
A French banker and an American artist fall in love during the 1968 Paris riots, entwining private passion with public rebellion.
Literary fiction Paris
Isabel Eberstadt
Money and madness complicate a woman's flight from her mother, drawing her into a Parisian story of dependence and uncertain escape.
Literary fiction Paris
Mavis Gallant
Interlinked stories capture Paris through its inhabitants and their encounters, finding unexpected drama in the rhythms of life within the city.
Short stories Paris
Jean Meral
Meral traces Paris through 150 years of American literature, examining how fiction, drama and poetry imagined the French capital.
Poetry Paris
Ian Littlewood
Writers across the centuries illuminate Paris, offering readers a literary companion whose many voices make familiar streets newly resonant.
Nonfiction Paris
Marianne Mehling
Churches, theatres and museums anchor a cultural exploration of Paris, with maps and plans supporting journeys through the city's monuments.
Travel writing Paris
Russell Ash and Bernard Higton
Writers' words and illustrations summon Paris through its atmosphere, inviting readers to discover the city as an imaginative and lived place.
Nonfiction Paris
Judi Culbertson and Tom Randall
Cemetery walks introduce remarkable Parisians through biographies and photographs, turning the city's resting places into encounters with its celebrated past.
Nonfiction Paris
Jean Rhys
An Englishwoman in Paris becomes entangled with an unsettling couple, entering a relationship in which affection and dependence are difficult to separate.
Nonfiction Paris
Henry Miller
A penniless writer wanders bohemian Paris through cafés, friendships and uninhibited nights, finding unexpected tenderness in an explicit memoir of pleasure.
Memoir Paris
Jean-Paul Sartre
Paris in 1938 frames lives searching for freedom and responsibility, as Sartre makes everyday decisions the terrain of existential inquiry.
Literary fiction France · Paris
Émile Zola
Zola enters Paris through Les Halles, where food, trade and labour expose the social divisions behind the city’s elegant surface.
Fiction Paris
Régine Deforges
A family estate and Paris frame a young woman's passage through wartime France, where private attachments collide with upheaval and resistance.
Nonfiction Paris
Donald J. Olsen
London, Paris and Vienna become works of social imagination, as Olsen compares the histories that shaped three great European cities.
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