In the first place you must know that everybody is shooting mad in these parts, from the greatest to the least. The chase is the local craze, and so it has ever been since the mythological times when the Tarasque, as the county dragon was called, flourish
Jeune encore et déjà lassé du sombre et bruyant Paris, Alphonse Daudet vient passer les étés dans son moulin de Fontvielle, " piqué comme un papillon " sur la colline parmi les lapins. Dans cette ruine ensoleillée de la vallée du Rhône, naissent
Daudet écrit ce recueil de nouvelles sous le coup de la guerre de 1870. Dans la première partie, 'La Fantaisie et l'histoire', son propos est moins de s'attarder à des faits militaires hauts en couleur que de décrire le quotidien d'une guerre vécue a
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In his widely acclaimed new collection of stories, Julian Barnes addresses what is perhaps the most poignant aspect of the human condition: growing old. The characters in The Lemon Table are facing the ends of their lives–some with bitter regret, others
The Pedant's ambition is simple. He wants to cook tasty, nutritious food; he wants not to poison his friends; and he wants to expand, slowly and with pleasure, his culinary repertoire. A stern critic of himself and others, he knows he is never going to in
Julian Barnes's long and passionate relationship with la belle France began more than forty years ago, and in these essays on the country and the culture he combines a keen appreciation, a seemingly infinite sphere of reference, and prose as stylish as cl
Only the author of Flaubert's Parrot could give us a novel that is at once a note-perfect rendition of the angsts and attitudes of English adolescence, a giddy comedy of sexual awakening in the 1960s, and a portrait of the accommodations that some of us c
Charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from her beginnings as a naive, carefree country girl before the war through to her wry and trenchant old age in the year 2020. This novel enables readers to follow her experience in marriage, her questioning of male trut
