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Pudlo France 2008-2009Restaurants & Hotels

Gilles Pudlowski

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978-1-892145-51-2 / 1-892145-51-0Available March 2008

Paris Chic & TrendyDesigners’ studios, hip boutiques, vintage shops

Adrienne Ribes-Tiphiaine Photographs by Sandrine Alouf

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978-1-892145-53-6 / 1-892145-53-7Available April 2008

The Patisseries of ParisChocolatiers, Tea Salons, Ice Cream Parlors,and more

Jamie CahillPhotographs by Alison Harris

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978-1-892145-52-9 / 1-892145-52-9Available March 2008

The Dud Avocado

Elaine DundyWith a new Afterword by the authorIntroduction by Terry Teachout

This comic novel follows the misadventures of anAmerican girl who impulsively quits college andheads off to conquer Paris in the 1950s.

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978-1-59017-232-2 / 1-59017-232-9

Paris Stories

Mavis GallantIntroduction by Michael Ondaatje

This new selection of Gallant’s work gathers someof the most memorable of her stories set in Europeand Paris, where Gallant has long lived.

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978-1-59017-022-9 / 1-59017-022-9

Memoirs RMemoirs of Montparnasse

John GlasscoIntroduction by Louis Begley

“Memoirs of Montparnasse is one of the most joy-ous books on youth—the thrill and the gall andthe adventure of it. It is also one of the best bookson being in literary Paris in the 1920s.”

—Michael Ondaatje

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978-1-59017-184-4 / 1-59017-184-5

Pages from the Goncourt Journals

Edmond and Jules de GoncourtEdited and Translated by Robert BaldickForeword by Geoff Dyer

No evocation of Parisian life in the second half ofthe nineteenth century can match that found inthe journals of the Goncourt brothers.

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978-1-59017-190-5 / 1-59017-190-X

The Pure and The Impure

ColetteIntroduction by Judith ThurmanTranslated by Herma Briffault

Lucid and lyrical, The Pure and the Impure standsout as one of modern literature’s subtlest reckon-ings not only with the varieties of sexual experi-ence, but with the always unlikely nature of love.

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978-0-940322-48-6 / 0-940322-48-X

Renoir, My Father

Jean RenoirIntroduction by Robert L. HerbertTranslated by Randolph and Dorothy Weaver

Jean Renoir’s book is both a wonderful doubleportrait of father and son and, in the words ofthe distinguished art historian John Golding, it“remains the best account of Renoir, and, further-more, among the most beautiful and movingbiographies we have.”

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Monsieur Proust

Céleste AlbaretForeword by André AcimanTranslated by Barbara Bray

Céleste Albaret was Marcel Proust’s housekeeperin his last years, and her reminiscences of heremployer present an intimate picture of the dailylife of a great writer who was also a deeply pecu-liar man.


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Biography RMadame de Pompadour

Nancy MitfordIntroduction by Amanda Foreman

With a fiction writer’s felicity, Mitford restores theroyal mistress and celebrates her as a survivor,unsurpassed in “the art of living,” who reigned asthe most powerful woman in France for nearlytwenty years.


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Flaubert and Madame BovaryA Double Portrait

Francis SteegmullerIntroduction by Victor Brombert

A work of scholarship, a profound contributionto literary criticism, Flaubert and Madame Bovaryis a biographical study executed with all the precisionand vision of a great novel.


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The Authentic Bistros of Paris

François ThomazeauPhotographs by Sylvain Ageorges

There may be a bistro on every block in Paris,but distinguishing the good from the disappointingisn’t so easy. Here writer François Thomazeauand photographer Sylvain Ageorges celebrate 51quintessential Parisian bistros.


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The Brasseries of Paris


Step through the doors of forty-nine of the mostbeautiful brasseries in Paris where the pleasures ofthe eye are reunited with the pleasures of the table.


978-1-892145-49-9 / 1-892145-49-9Available October 2007

The Historic Restaurants of ParisA Guide to Century-Old Cafés, Bistros, andGourmet Food Shops

Ellen Williams

This guidebook describes nearly one hundredselect restaurants and gourmet shops where 19th-century Paris—with all its romance, history, andbeauty—still exists.

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978-1-892145-03-1 / 1-892145-03-0

Markets of Paris

Dixon and Ruthanne LongPhotographs by Alison Harris

A perfect travel companion or gift book, thisshopping lover’s guide details over 100 marketsin Paris—for everything from legendary cheesesand meats to tattered books and antique fabrics—with beautiful color photographs throughout.

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978-1-892145-45-1 / 1-892145-45-6

Pudlo Paris 2007-2008A Restaurant Guide

Gilles Pudlowski

Called by The New York Times “the restaurantguide” for many Parisians, this definitive workdetails over one thousand eating establishments—as well as hundreds of pubs, salons, cafés, andspecialty shops. It is now available in English forthe first time.

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Quiet Corners of ParisUnexpected Hideaways, Secret Courtyards,Hidden Gardens

Jean-Christophe NapiasPhotographs by Christophe Lefébure

In this truly off-the-beaten-path guide, more than eighty of the loveliest,most tranquil, and sometimes hidden places in Paris are described andphotographed.

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Of Special Interest RNovels in Three Lines

Introduction by Luc Sante

True stories of murder, mayhem, and everydaylife from early twentieth-century France.

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978-159017-230-8 / 1-59017-230-2Available August 2007

The Age of Conversation

Benedetta CraveriTranslated by Teresa Waugh

“A well-researched study of the French salon. . . [it] offers shrewd portraits of intellectualsociety’s leading ladies, or salonnières, and of theworld they created essential for understandingthe world of the salon and the reasons for itsappeal to so many writers and statesmen.”

—The Wall Street Journal

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978-1-59017-214-8 /1-59017-214-0

Literary Paris: A Guide

Jessica Powell

“A refreshingly concise and user-friendly look at twenty-eight writerswho define the city’s belletristic tradition. Part anthology and part sight-seeing guide, it combines literary excerpts, photographs and anecdotes. . . ”

—Town & Country

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978-1-892145-38-3 / 1-892145-38-3

Paris Jazz: A GuideFrom the Jazz Age to the Present

Luke Miner

“An atmospheric and concise history of le jazz hot in the French capital. . . with maps and thumbnail descriptions of contemporary Parisian jazzclubs . . . [and] vintage black and white photographs.”

—San Francisco Chronicle


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Walks Through Napoleon andJosephine’s Paris

Diana Reid Haig

“Another Paris guide? Hold on, this isn’t the usual fare. Six walks . . . takethe reader past sites and sights associated with the doomed romanceof the Little General and his high-born wife.”

—San Francisco Chronicle

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978-1-892145-25-3 / 1-892145-25-1

The Impressionists’ Paris

Ellen Williams

Travelers who follow the walking tours in The Impressionists’ Paris willnever see the paintings—or the city—in the same way again. “This pock-etable book is a small marvel. It is fun to look at and fun to read.”

—John Russell, The New York Times

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978-0-964126-22-0 / 0-9641262-2-2

Picasso’s ParisWalking Tours of the Artist’s Life inthe City

Ellen Williams

Four walking tours follow Picasso through some of the most picturesqueand historic districts of the city, where “the engaging writing and thor-ough research make for an excellent travel guide—or just a great read.”

—Time Out New York

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978-0-964126-27-5 / 0-9641262-7-3

Artists in ResidenceA Guide to the Homes and Studios of Eight19th-Century Artists in and around Paris

Dana Micucci

Venture beyond museum walls and into the homesand studios of eight celebrated nineteenth cen-tury artists, all open to the public and locatedeither in or near Paris.


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Count D’Orgel’s Ball

Raymond RadiguetIntroduction by Jean CocteauTranslated by Annapaola Cancogni

At Count D’Orgel’s masquerade ball, the real dis-guises are those of the human heart. It is a lovestory that is as disturbing as it is delicious.

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978-1-59017-138-7 / 1-59017-138-1

The Unknown Masterpiece

Honore de BalzacIntroduction by Arthur C. DantoTranslated by Richard Howard

The story, which has served as an inspiration toartists as various as Cézanne, Henry James, Picasso,and New Wave director Jacques Rivette, is, in criticDore Ashton’s words, a “fable of modern art.”

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978-0-940322-74-5 / 0-940322-74-9

The Child

Jules VallèsTranslated and with an Introduction byDouglas Parmée

Vallès’s book is one of the funniest in French lit-erature, a triumph of insubordinate comedy overthe forces of order and the self-appointed defendersof decency.

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978-1-59017-117-2 / 1-59017-117-9

The Engagement

Georges SimenonAfterword by John GrayTranslated by Anna Moschovakis

One of the most chilling and compassionate ofSimenon’s extraordinary psychological novels,The Engagement explores the mystery of a blamelessheart in a compromised soul.

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978-1-59017-228-5 / 1-59017-228-0

The Strangers in the House

Georges SimenonIntroduction by P.D. JamesTranslated by Geoffrey Sainsbury

In The Strangers in the House, Georges Simenon,master chronicler of the dark side of the humanheart, gives us a detective story that is also a taleof an improbable redemption.

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978-1-59017-194-3 / 1-59017-194-2

Monsieur Monde Vanishes

Georges SimenonIntroduction by Larry McMurtryTranslated by Jean Stewart

Unsurpassed as an evocation of milieu, whether ofstaid bourgeois propriety or waterfront seediness,and opening a remarkable perspective on the mys-teries of desire and personality, Monsieur MondeVanishes is a triumph.

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978-1-59017-096-0 / 1-59017-096-2

Mouchette

Georges BernanosIntroduction by Fanny HoweTranslated by J.C. Whitehouse

First published as Nouvelle Histoire de Mouchettein 1937, this French classic is the basis for RobertBresson’s cult film.

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978-1-59017-151-6 / 1-59017-151-9

Witch Grass

Raymond QueneauIntroduction by Barbara Wright

A wild philosophical farce that slips and slides fromthe bland routine of daily life through a series ofcomic run-ins before ending with an apocalypticsurprise.

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978-1-59017-031-1 / 1-59017-031-8

Among Friends: The Impressionists’ Paintings of Each Other

United not only by their revolutionary style of painting, theImpressionists also shared profound friendships. These ten paint-ings depict quiet, private moments in their homes and gardens.

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Monet at Home: Claude Monet’s Paintings of his Family

These ten images provide intimate glimpses of Monet’s wife andchildren in their homes and gardens—spaces that were as lumi-nously beautiful as his canvases.


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Views of Paris: Five Neighborhoods and their Monuments

The images on these notecards are from an exquisite map of1867 depicting the monuments of Paris and include views of theArc de Triomphe; the Luxembourg Gardens, Hôtel des Invalides,and École Militaire; the Place de la Concorde, Tuileries Palace,and Louvre; the Madeleine and Opéra, the Île de la Cité andNotre Dame.


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American Artists in France and Italy: From the Collection ofthe Corcoran Gallery of Art

Some of the most memorable American artwork has been pro-duced under the spell of France and Italy. This collection includestwenty images of city, countryside, and coast by Cassatt, Whistler,Hassam, Sargent, and others.


978-1-892145-14-7 / 1-892145-14-6

Sew Chic: French Button Cards from the Art Deco Era

These charming notecards are based on five French button cardsfrom the Thirties. The cards—as chic as the buttons themselves—feature the decorative prints, distinctive color palette, andsophisticated typefaces of the Art Deco era.


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The Dud Avocado




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Paris Stories




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—Michael Ondaatje

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Renoir, My Father



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Monsieur Proust




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Ellen Williams


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Markets of Paris



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The Dud Avocado




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Paris Stories




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—Michael Ondaatje

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Renoir, My Father



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Monsieur Proust




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Ellen Williams


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Markets of Paris



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