paris

A memoir in which the author, a former crime reporter, describes his experiences as a resident of Shakespeare & Co., a venerable Paris bookstore and writer's haven where he sought refuge after fleeing Canada in a panic due to threats from a thug he named in a book.

Adam Gopnik describes the experiences he, his wife, and their infant son had while traveling through Paris in the late 1990s.

Presents sketches originally published in "The Young Ladies Journal" profiling popular fashions in Paris during the 1890s.

Roth, a young German soldier who can speak impeccable, accent-free French, finds his work translating the confessions of prisoners at Gestapo headquarters in Paris disagreeable, though certainly better than being at the front, but he comes to realize the importance of taking a stand when he falls in love with Chantal, a French resistance fighter.

A reprint of Henry James' "The America" that includes a textual history of the novel, background and source materials, and critical articles by James and others.