[PDF] Under The Roofs Of Paris eBook

Author : Henry Miller
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 30,16 MB
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781555847005

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In 1941, Henry Miller, the author of Tropic of Cancer, was commissioned by a Los Angeles bookseller to write an erotic novel for a dollar a page. Under the Roofs of Paris (originally published as Opus Pistorum) is that book. Here one finds Miller’s characteristic candor, wit, self-mockery, and celebration of the good life. From Marcelle to Tania, to Alexandra, to Anna, and from the Left Bank to Pigalle, Miller sweeps us up in his odyssey in search of the perfect job, the perfect woman, and the perfect experience.

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Modernista
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 41,95 MB
Release : 2024-04-26
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ISBN : 9180948634

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Through George Orwell's firsthand accounts, readers are exposed to the harsh realities of life as a member of the destitute underclass. Orwell works various menial jobs, as dishwasher and plongeur in Parisian restaurants, and encounters a cast of characters from all walks of life. These include fellow down-and-outs, as well as the exploitative and indifferent employers and landlords who profit from their desperation. Down and Out in Paris and London sheds light on the daily challenges faced by those living in poverty, from the constant struggle to secure food and shelter to the lack of dignity and respect afforded to the working poor. Orwell's experiences also serve as a critique of societal structures and attitudes that perpetuate poverty and inequality, offering insight into the systemic failures that marginalize and oppress the most vulnerable members of society. GEORGE ORWELL was born in India in 1903 and passed away in London in 1950. As a journalist, critic, and author, he was a sharp commentator on his era and its political conditions and consequences.

Author : Katherine Rundell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 21,31 MB
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1442490586

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When authorities threaten to take 12-year-old Sophie away from Charles, who has been her guardian since she was one and both survived a shipwreck, the pair goes to Paris to find Sophie's mother, and they are aided by Matteo and his band of "rooftoppers."

Author : Michael Wallner
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 30,80 MB
Release : 2010-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0385673396

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A suspenseful and dramatic story of impossible love between a German soldier and a French Resistance fighter in World War Two Paris. In 1943, Michel Roth is a young soldier working in the German army’s back offices in occupied Paris. But his fluency in French gets Roth a new task when the Gestapo find themselves in need of a translator for the confessions of interrogated French resisters. After work Roth chooses another path – he slips out of his hotel carrying a bag of civilian clothes and steals into an alley where he changes personas, becoming Monsieur Antoine, a young Frenchman. He strolls the streets of Paris, where one day he meets Chantal, daughter of an antiquarian bookseller. They fall in love, and when Chantal warns him away from the notorious café Turachevsky, favoured nightspot for German officers and the French women who entertain them, Michel believes it is out of jealousy. Too late he discovers that she is a member of the Resistance, and his naiveté leaves Michel on the other side of the SS interrogation machine. What follows is a tale of desperate cat and mouse through Paris, and into the devastated French countryside at the end of the war, when neighbours are quick to betray neighbours, and even to take revenge into their own hands.

Author : Fabrice Moireau
Publisher : Didier Millet,Csi
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,12 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Paris (France)
ISBN : 9789814217941

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In Rooftops of Paris, Fabrice Moireau - ho has illustrated such titles as Paris Sketchbook, Provence Sketchboo and Gardens of Paris - presents a collection of aerial views over Paris.

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 26,17 MB
Release : 2024-01-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1788856414

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Published in 1933, and still relevant today, Orwell's first full-length work is a compassionate and insightful description of the life of the working poor in Paris and the homeless in London. Written when Orwell was a struggling writer in his twenties, he vividly documents a world of unrelenting squalor – sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses, working as a plongeur in a Paris hotel, surviving on scraps and cigarette butts, living alongside tramps, a pavement artist and a starving Russian ex-army captain. Exposing a shocking, previously-hidden world to his readers, Orwell gave a human face to the statistics of poverty for the first time – and in doing so, found his voice as a writer. 'Orwell was the great moral force of his age' – Spectator

Author : Luc Sante
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,74 MB
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0374299323

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"A vivid investigation into the seamy underside of nineteenth and twentieth century Paris"--

Author : Christopher Curtis Mead
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 25,38 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture and society
ISBN : 9780271050874

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Investigates how architecture, technology, politics, and urban planning came together in French architect Victor Baltard's creation of the Central Markets of Paris. Presents a case study of the historical process that produced modern Paris between 1840 and 1870.