Paris metro tales [[electronic resource] ] : stories / / translated by Helen Constantine

• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (337 p.)
• Disciplina: 843.01083244361
• Soggetto topico: Short stories, French; Subways - France - Paris
• Soggetto geografico: Paris (France) Fiction
• Altri autori: ConstantineHelen
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Picture Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Gare du Nord; 2 Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre; 3 Summer Rain; 4 Refined; 5 A Little Accident; 6 If it were Sunday; 7 Facino Cane; 8 Rue des Larmes; 9 Story; 10 There or Elsewhere; 11 Saint Genevieve; 12 Expomodigliani.com; 13 Minuet; 14 Snow; 15 La Halle; 16 Confronting the Present; 17 The Cab; 18 The Little Restaurant at Ternes; 19 Romance in the Metro; 20 The Neighbour in the Rue de Jarente; 21 The Landlady; 22 La Butte Montmartre; Notes on the Metro; Notes on the Stories; Notes on the Authors; Selected Further Reading ; Publisher's AcknowledgementsMap
• Sommario/riassunto: Following on from Helen Constantine's hugely successful Paris Tales, the twenty-two short stories included in More Metro Tales take the reader on an fascinating journey around Paris by metro. The journey begins at the Gare du Nord, stops at twenty underground stations along the way, and ends at Lamarck-Caulaincourt. Some of these stories actually take place in the metro itself, but most are to be found when you emerge above ground. They range from the15th-century account of the miraculous Saint Genevieve, patron saint of Paris, through tales by favourite writers such as Zola, Simenon, and Maup
• Titolo autorizzato: Paris metro tales
• ISBN: 0-19-162499-3; 1-283-34838-1; 9786613348388; 0-19-161292-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781758703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II