{"product_id":"france-in-mind-an-anthology-from-henry-james-edith-wharton-gertrude-stein-and-ernest-hemingway-to-peter-mayle-and-adam-gopnik-a-feast-of-british-paperback","title":"France in Mind: An Anthology: From Henry James, Edith Wharton, Gertrude Stein, and Ernest Hemingway to Peter Mayle and Adam Gopnik--A Feast of British - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlice Leccese Powers\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her third literary Baedeker, Alice Leccese Powers-editor of \u003cb\u003eItaly in Mind\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eIreland in Mind\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e-\u003c\/i\u003eexplores France through the senses and sensibilities of thirty-three British and American authors. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe food and the people, the culture and viniculture, the architecture and the expatriates, the pleasures (and frustrations) of France are described by intrepid travelers who also happen to be brilliant essayists, poets, and novelists. From Gertrude Stein's Paris to Ezra Pound's Pyrenees; from Tobias Smollett, who grumbled, to Peter Mayle, who settled in; and from Edith Wharton on falling in love to David Sedaris on falling over French grammar-here is France in all its splendor in the words of some of the best and most entertaining writers in the English language. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHenry Adams - James Baldwin - Elizabeth Bishop - Mary Blume - James Fenimore Cooper - Charles Dickens - Lawrence Durrell - Lawrence Ferlinghetti - M. F. K. Fisher - F. Scott Fitzgerald - Janet Flanner - Adam Gopnik - Joanne Harris - Ernest Hemingway - Washington Irving - Henry James - Thomas Jefferson - Stanley Karnow - Peter Mayle - Mary McCarthy - Jan Morris - Ezra Pound - David Sedaris - Tobias Smollett - Gertrude Stein - Robert Louis Stevenson - Paul Theroux - Gillian Tindall - Calvin Trillin - Mark Twain - Edith Wharton - Richard Wilbur - William Carlos Williams\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her third literary Baedeker, Alice Leccese Powers-editor of Italy in Mind and Ireland in Mind\"-explores France through the senses and sensibilities of thirty-three British and American authors. \u003cbr\u003eThe food and the people, the culture and viniculture, the architecture and the expatriates, the pleasures (and frustrations) of France are described by intrepid travelers who also happen to be brilliant essayists, poets, and novelists. From Gertrude Stein's Paris to Ezra Pound's Pyrenees; from Tobias Smollett, who grumbled, to Peter Mayle, who settled in; and from Edith Wharton on falling in love to David Sedaris on falling over French grammar-here is France in all its splendor in the words of some of the best and most entertaining writers in the English language. \u003cbr\u003eHenry Adams - James Baldwin - Elizabeth Bishop - Mary Blume - James Fenimore Cooper - Charles Dickens - Lawrence Durrell - Lawrence Ferlinghetti - M. F. K. Fisher - F. Scott Fitzgerald - Janet Flanner - Adam Gopnik - Joanne Harris - Ernest Hemingway - Washington Irving - Henry James - Thomas Jefferson - Stanley Karnow - Peter Mayle - Mary McCarthy - Jan Morris - Ezra Pound - David Sedaris - Tobias Smollett - Gertrude Stein - Robert Louis Stevenson - Paul Theroux - Gillian Tindall - Calvin Trillin - Mark Twain - Edith Wharton - Richard Wilbur - William Carlos Williams\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlice Leccese Powers is the editor of the anthologies \u003cb\u003eItaly in Mind\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eIreland in Mind\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e and co-editor of \u003cb\u003eThe Brooklyn Reader: Thirty Writers Celebrate America's Favorite Borough\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e A freelance writer and editor, she has been published in \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, Newsday, \u003c\/i\u003e and many other newspapers and magazines. Ms. Powers also teaches writing at the Corcoran School of Art and Georgetown University. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband and three daughters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 8.14 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 11, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51759239659808,"sku":"9780375714351","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/bb197c2653a1ae93125b7a021f28225e.webp?v=1780146506","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/france-in-mind-an-anthology-from-henry-james-edith-wharton-gertrude-stein-and-ernest-hemingway-to-peter-mayle-and-adam-gopnik-a-feast-of-british-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}