Paris in the Present Tense: A Novel 9781468314779, 1468314777

Mark Helprin’s powerful, rapturous new novel is set in a present-day Paris caught between violent unrest and its well-kn

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English Pages 361 Year 2017

Paris in the Present Tense: A Novel
9781468314779, 1468314777

Mark Helprin’s powerful, rapturous new novel is set in a present-day Paris caught between violent unrest and its well-kn

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This book explores the Italian film landscape with a focus on cinematic achievements of the twenty-first century.

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Now in paperback! 2023 Perkins Prize of the International Society for the Study of Narrative ESSE Book Award for J

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For observers of the European film scene, Federico Fellini’s death in 1993 came to stand for the demise of Italian cinem

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Abstract

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The first English-language anthology of Yan Thomas, whose contributions to Roman law revolutionised legal scholarship Co

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In the early 1800s, Rossini’s operas permeated Italy, from the opera house to myriad arrangements heard in public and pr

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