{"title":"Americans in Paris","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAmericans in Paris\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e gathers the writers who crossed the Atlantic and found, in the cafés, hotels, boulevards, and back rooms of Paris, a different sort of literary life. From Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald to the wider circle of American expatriate authors who made the city their refuge, workshop, and sometime ruin, this collection explores the enduring relationship between American literature and Paris.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDiscover English-language books by American writers in Paris, including novels, memoirs, essays, and literary classics from the Lost Generation and beyond. A collection for readers drawn to expatriate Paris, twentieth-century literary history, and the Americans who came to the city looking for freedom, fortune, inspiration—or simply a good table and another bottle of wine.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"a-moveable-feast","title":"A Moveable Feast","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e“You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003e― \u003cspan class=\"authorOrTitle\"\u003eErnest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan id=\"quote_book_link_4631\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished posthumously in 1964, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA Moveable Feast\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works. Since Hemingway's personal papers were released in 1979, scholars have examined and debated the changes made to the text before publication. Now this new special restored edition presents the original manuscript as the author prepared it to be published. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFeaturing a personal foreword by Patrick Hemingway, Ernest's sole surviving son, and an introduction by the editor and grandson of the author, Seán Hemingway, this new edition also includes a number of unfinished, never-before-published Paris sketches revealing experiences that Hemingway had with his son Jack and his first wife, Hadley. Also included are irreverent portraits of other luminaries, such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ford Madox Ford, and insightful recollections of his own early experiments with his craft. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSure to excite critics and readers alike, the restored edition of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA Moveable Feast\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e brilliantly evokes the exuberant mood of Paris after World War I and the unbridled creativity and enthusiasm that Hemingway himself experienced. 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Santiago, an ageing fisherman who has gone eighty-four days without a catch, ventures far out to sea in the hope of breaking his run of ill fortune. When he hooks an enormous marlin, a solitary contest begins, testing his strength, patience and resolve over days and nights beneath the open sky. Bound to the great fish by a mixture of admiration and determination, Santiago confronts not only the demands of the natural world but the limits of his own body.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWritten in Hemingway’s unmistakable prose, the novella explores courage, dignity, solitude and the difficult distinction between defeat and failure. Its apparent simplicity conceals a remarkable depth, as the fisherman’s struggle becomes a meditation on the relationship between humanity and nature, and on the dignity of persevering when victory remains uncertain. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953, the book also contributed to the recognition that culminated in Hemingway’s Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. One of the defining works of twentieth-century American fiction, it stands as a late, distilled expression of the themes that shaped Hemingway’s literary life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Ernest Hemingway, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Old Man and the Sea\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Old Man and the Sea\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“It is a study in sustained crisis, a quite wonderful example of narrative art.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Norman Shrapnel, The Guardian, 1952\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardner's EU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63865402065226,"sku":null,"price":14.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}]}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1028\/0389\/8698\/collections\/history_of_the_american_library_in_paris.jpg?v=1790855406","url":"https:\/\/thelamppostparis.com\/collections\/americans-in-paris.oembed","provider":"The Lamp-Post Library \u0026 Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}