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  A Moveable Feast

  by Ernest Hemingway

  Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works. It is his classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, filled with irreverent portraits of other expatriate luminaries such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein; tender memories of his first wife, Hadley; and insightful recollections of his own early experiments with his craft. It is a literary feast, brilliantly... (more)
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  Nightwood

  by Djuna Barnes

  The fiery and enigmatic masterpiece — one of the greatest novels of the Modernist era.Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books that somehow reflect a time or an epoch" ( TLS ). That time is the period between the two World Wars, and Barnes' novel unfolds in the decadent shadows of Europe's great cities, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna — a world in which... (more)
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  Black Girl in Paris

  by Shay Youngblood

  In her critically acclaimed new novel, Shay Youngblood chronicles the Parisian odyssey of a young African- American woman retracing the footsteps of the literary legends who inspired her.