The Paris Library, Paperback - Janet Skeslien Charles

Publisher: John Murray PressAuthor(s): Janet Skeslien CharlesPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x 231 x 36Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera farme...

Reducere. Una historia de valentía y traición basada en las vicisitudes de los trabajadores de la Biblioteca Americana de París en la Segunda Guerra Mundial....

The instant New York Times bestseller, inspired by the true story of the librarians at the American Library in Paris who risked their lives during ...

Reducere. Paris, 1939. Tanara si ambitioasa Odile Souchet are tot ce si-a dorit: iubitul ei este un ofiter de politie aratos, iar slujba de la Biblioteca Ame...

Reducere. Isolated from the main transportation routes during the early 19th century, Lake Charles was a backwater of 500 people when incorporated in 1867. T...

Reducere. How did Paris become the world favorite it is today? Charles Rearick argues that we can best understand Paris as several cities in one, each with i...

Reducere. Here is a continuation of selections from Flanner's celebrated "Letter from Paris, " a series that appeared in the New Yorker from 1925 to 1975 ove...

Reducere. This portrait of a city and an era is drawn from the the author's celebrated "Letter from Paris, " a series that appeared in The New Yorker from 19...

* Witty, catty and entertaining, Paris Was Yesterday is an insider's guide to the arts scene in Paris between the wars

This concluding volume of Janet Browne's biography covers the transformation in Darwin's life after the first unexpected announcement of the theory...

Reducere. When Charles Mulli was a child, his family repeatedly abandoned him, and he lived in fear of his abusive, alcoholic father. With an extraordinary w...

Imaginative and haunting new translations by Ian Brinton of the 18 poems in the 'Tableaux Parisiens' section of Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal, wit...

Reducere. First published posthumously in 1869, "Paris Spleen" is a collection of 51 short prose poems by Charles Baudelaire. Inspired by Aloysius Bertrand's...

Reducere. In the 1850s, ancien and Haussmannian Paris clash, giving birth to a violent disjunction. At that moment in time, an other present is born, a new h...

Reducere. In 1858, Charles Darwin was forty-nine years old, a gentleman scientist living quietly at Down House in the Kent countryside. He was not yet a focu...

Reducere. Baudelaire's prose poems were written over many years and published in magazines between 1855 and his death in 1867. Francis Scarfe's translations ...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Straight-as-an-arrow special agent Kate O'Hare and international con man Nick Fox have brought down some of the biggest criminals in the world. But...

Few lives of great men offer so much interest - and so many mysteries - as the life of Charles Darwin, the greatest figure of nineteenth-century sc...

Reducere. Few lives of great men offer so much interest--and so many mysteries--as the life of Charles Darwin, the greatest figure of nineteenth-century scie...

Reducere. *Includes pictures*Includes excerpts of contemporary accounts*Includes a bibliography for further readingIn the late 18th century, as political unr...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

This novel follows the story of architect Lucien Bernard in 1942 Paris, accepting a commission to design a secret hiding place for a wealthy Jewish...

Close friendships are a heart-warming feature of many of our best-loved works of fiction. This book explores 24 fictional friendships in succinct, ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. In the fall of 1915, Alice Gray traded her life in Chicago for a solitary journey in the remote sand hills of northwest Indiana along Lake Michigan...

Reducere. The Peanuts gang helps Sally celebrate getting her first library card in this Level 2 Ready-to-Read Sally is so excited--she is going to the librar...

First published in 1932 at the height of crime fiction's Golden Age, this macabre and atmospheric dives into the murky underground of Parisian soci...

Reducere. Illustrates the differences between quiet and loud. Explains what makes a sound quiet or loud and how they affect everyday life. Colorful photograp...

Reducere. The hard work of nineteenth-century Irish immigrants in Waterbury helped place the city on the map as the Brass Capital of the World. In the early ...