Wharton, Edith
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHATeffi, N. A. (Nadezhda Aleksandrovna)
Summary: In 1918, in the immediate aftermath of the Russian Revolution, Teffi, whose stories and journalism had made her a celebrity in Moscow, was invited to read from her work in Ukraine. She accepted the invitation eagerly, though she had every intention of returning home. As it happened, her trip ended four years later in Paris, where she would spend the rest of her life in exile. None of this was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TEFFI, N.A TEFClébert, Jean-Paul
Summary: "Paris Vagabond is an unclassifiable masterpiece, a book that purports to be a novel but, accompanied as it is by the photographs of Patrice Molinard, is as much a brilliant documentary as a work of the imagination. In rich prose, suffused with the language of the street, and brilliantly rendered in English by Donald Nicholson-Smith, Jean-Paul Clebert captures the essence of a long-gone Paris...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2016