Skip to main content
Search Button
Estados Unidos Tienda Kobo Tarjetas de regalo Ayuda

Kobo Rakuten

Wishlist

Carrito de compra

¡Obtienes el tratamiento VIP!

Artículos no disponibles para compra.
Por favor revisa tu carrito. Puedes eliminar los artículos no disponibles ahora o los eliminaremos nosotros automáticamente al momento de pagar.
artículosartículo
artículosartículo

Recomendado para ti

Loading...


“gillian tindall”

1 - 12 de 12 resultados para “gillian tindall”
Skip side bar filters

  • Célestine

    Voices from a French Village

    de Gillian Tindall ...
    A "quietly remarkable book" about the romantic mystery surrounding a nineteenth-century woman reveals the vanished world of a provincial French community ( Scientific American ).Late on a summer afternoon in the heart of rural France, in a small, centuries-old house newly abandoned to its ghosts, Gillian Tindall came upon a cache of letters dating from the 1860s. Neatly folded and carefully tucked ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

La gente que leyó esto también disfrutó

  • Les Misérables

    Traducido por Christine Donougher ...
    de Victor Hugo ...
    A brilliant modern translation by Christine Donougher of Victor Hugo's thrilling masterpiece, with an introduction by Robert Tombs.This is the best translation of the novel available in English, as recommended by David Bellos in The Novel of the Century.Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibros

    Disponible también en: Audiolibros

  • Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris

    An Adventure History of Paris

    de Graham Robb ...
    The New York Times bestseller: the secrets of the City of Light, revealed in the lives of the great, the near-great, and the forgotten—by the author of the acclaimed The Discovery of France.This is the Paris you never knew. From the Revolution to the present, Graham Robb has distilled a series of astonishing true narratives, all stranger than fiction, of the lives of the great, the near-great, and ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Dior by Dior: The Autobiography of Christian Dior

    The Autobiography of Christian Dior

    de Christian Dior ...
    Traducido por Antonia Fraser ...
    Series series V&A Fashion Perspectives
    Christian Dior (1905-1957) rocketed to fame with his first collection in 1947 when the 'New Look' took the world by storm. Originally published in 1957, this charming and modest autobiography gives a fascinating and detailed insight into the workings of a great fashion house, while revealing the private man behind the high-profile establishment. This book is part of the V&A Fashion Perspectives ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Madame Tussaud

    A Life in Wax

    de Kate Berridge ...
    Kate Berridge's Madame Tussaud: A Life in Wax "celebrates a great pioneer of mass-market illusion, whose illusions eventually included herself."*Millions have visited the museums that bear her name, yet few know much about Madame Tussaud. A celebrated artist, she had both a ringside seat at and a cameo role in the French Revolution. A victim and survivor of one of the most tumultuous times in ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Belly of Paris

    Traducido por Brian Nelson ...
    de Émile Zola ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Respectable people... What bastards!' Unjustly deported to Devil's Island following Louis-Napoleon's coup-d'état in December 1851, Florent Quenu escapes and returns to Paris. He finds the city changed beyond recognition. The old Marché des Innocents has been knocked down as part of Haussmann's grand programme of urban reconstruction to make way for Les Halles, the spectacular new food markets. ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Swann's Way

    In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1

    de Marcel Proust ...
    One hundred years have passed since Marcel Proust published the first volume of what was to become a seven-volume masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time. In the intervening century his famously compelling novel has never been out of print and has been translated into dozens of languages. English-language readers were fortunate to have an early and extraordinarily fine translation of the novel from ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Transforming Paris

    The Life and Labors of Baron Haussman

    de David P. Jordan ...
    The Paris we know today, with its grand boulevards, its bridges and parks, its monumental beauty, was essentially built in only seventeen years, in the middle of the nineteenth century. In this brief period, whole neighborhoods of medieval and revolutionary Paris -- over-crowded, dangerous, and filthy -- were razed, and from the rubble a modern city of light and air emerged. This triumphant ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • The Kill

    Traducido por Brian Nelson ...
    de Émile Zola ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'It was the time when the rush for spoils filled a corner of the forest with the yelping of hounds, the cracking of whips, the flaring of torches. The appetites let loose were satisfied at last, shamelessly, amid the sound of crumbling neighbourhoods and fortunes made in six months. The city had become an orgy of gold and women.' The Kill (La Curée) is the second volume in Zola's great cycle of ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • A Literary Paris

    Hemingway, Colette, Sedaris, and Others on the Uncommon Lure of the City of Light

    de Jamie Cox Robertson ...
    You don’t have to live in Paris to experience her unique beauty, allure, and enchantment. With this dazzling literary celebration of the City of Light, you can stroll along the Seine with David Sedaris in Me Talk Pretty One Day, sample croissants in a patisserie with M.F.K. Fisher in As They Were, and savor Mona Lisa’s smile at the Louvre with Mark Twain in Innocents Abroad.With fascinating ... Leer más

    $1.99 USD

  • The Gardener of Versailles

    My Life in the World's Grandest Garden

    de Alain Baraton ...
    Traducido por Christopher Brent Murray ...
    Tour Versailles’ 2,100 acres as its gardener-in-chief of 40 years describes its fascinating history in this “eccentric and charming” love letter for gardeners and Francophiles (New York Times).In Alain Baraton’s Versailles, every grove tells a story. As the gardener-in-chief, Baraton lives on its grounds, and since 1982 he has devoted his life to the gardens, orchards, and fields that were loved ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Between Meals

    An Appetite for Paris

    de A. J. Liebling ...
    New Yorker staff writer A.J. Liebling recalls his Parisian apprenticeship in the fine art of eating in this charming memoir, Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris."There would come a time when, if I had compared my life to a cake, the sojourns in Paris would have presented the chocolate filling. The intervening layers were plain sponge."In his nostalgic review of his Rabelaisian initiation into ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD