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A King Alone by Jean Giono; Alyson Waters (Translator); Susan Stewart (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction
An existential detective story by one of France's most popular modern writers, set in a mid-nineteenth century mountain village, available in English for the first time"The book started off entirely by chance, without even a character. The character was the Tree, the Beech, and the starting point--that ...Show more
Angelo by Jean Giono
Category: Fiction
Angelo, a young Hussar colonel and expert swordsman, has had to escape into France from his native Piedmont after killing an Austrian police-spy in a duel. Travelling the roads of Provence disguised as a French workman, he falls in with an eccentric marquise, Celine de Theus, and becomes a guest at the ...Show more
Blue Boy by Jean Giono
Category: Fiction
A sweeping tale of a boyhood in Provence. Although Jean Giono wrote over fifty volumes of fiction, poems, and plays, and attracted such fervent fans as Henry Miller, his work is not as well-known in America as it deserves to be. Blue Boy , which follows Counterpoints reissue of The Joy of Mans Desiring ...Show more
ENNEMONDE by Giono Jean
Category: Fiction
One of the final novellas by the acclaimed French writer Jean Giono, Ennemonde is a fierce and jubilant portrait of a life intensely lived Ennemonde Girard: Obese. Toothless. Razor-sharp. Loving mother and murderous wife: a character like none other in literature. In telling us Ennemonde's astounding s ...Show more
Hill by Jean Giono
Category: Fiction
An NYRB Classics Original Deep in Provence, a century ago, four stone houses perch on a hillside. Wildness presses in from all sides. Beyond a patchwork of fields, a mass of green threatens to overwhelm the village. The animal world a miming cat, a malevolent boar displays a mind of its own. The four ho ...Show more
Joy of Man's Desiring by Jean Giono
Category: Fiction
A true forebear of magical realism, French author Jean Giono created men and women rooted in the folklore of provincial France. In this new edition of the original Que Ma Joie Demeure--literally, That My Joy Remain--he tells the tale of a farmer couple in Haute Provence who find that the spark has someh ...Show more
Le Chant Du Monde (The Song Of The World) by Jean Giono
Category: Fiction | Series: Folio
La chanson du monde est un roman de 1934 de l'écrivain français Jean Giono. Le récit dépeint une rivière et des vendettas humaines comme faisant partie de la nature. L'histoire contient des références à l'Iliade. Ses thèmes et sa vision de la nature ont été fortement inspirés du recueil de poésie de Wal ...Show more
Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
Category: Classic Fiction
Jean Giono's beautiful allegorical tale is legendary. Written in the 1950's, its message was ahead of its time, inspiring readers to rediscoverthe harmonies of the countryside and prevent its willful destruction. The narrator, journeying by foot across the barren plains of the lower Alps, has his thirst ...Show more
Melville - A Novel by Jean Giono
Category: Fiction | Series: NYRB Classics
Moby-Dick looms large in the world's imagination. But by the mid-1930s-eighty years after it first appeared in English, no one had yet translated Melville's great sea-novel into French. The Provencal novelist Jean Giono fell in love with the book. He inspired his friend Lucien Jacques to join him in the ...Show more
Occupation Journal by Jean Giono; Jody Gladding (Translator)
Category: Biography
A renowned writer and committed pacifist throughout the 1930s - a conviction that resulted in his imprisonment before and after the Occupation - Jean Giono spent the war in the village of Contadour in Provence, where he wrote, corresponded with other writers, and cared for his consumptive daughter. This ...Show more
TO THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE by GIONO JEAN
Category: unmapped | Series: Peter Owen Modern Classics Ser.
Written in chilling detail, this novel describes the effect of World War I on a small community in Provence. In some of the most fiercely realistic and horrifying scenes of war ever recreated in literature, this story evokes the harsh, primitive conditions in the trenches as well as the loneliness and a ...Show more
The Horseman on the Roof by Jean Giono
Category: Fiction
In the white heat the sky is opaque, the air leaden and the light intense. A single cavalryman wonders at the oppressive atmosphere of the unfamiliar countryside he is entering. Exile from his Italian homeland as well as an innate, stubborn pride compel him onward, into the heart of Provence and into th ...Show more