Books like The Paris Wife
Hadley Richardson, a shy twenty-eight-year-old from St. Louis, marries the young Ernest Hemingway after a whirlwind courtship and sails with him to Paris, where among the expatriate writers of the 1920s their marriage comes under strain.
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A Moveable Feast
Hemingway's memories of 1920s Paris, cold rooms, Gertrude Stein's salon and his friendship with Scott Fitzgerald, written forty years later and published after his death.
The Sun Also Rises
American expatriates drink, fight, and fall apart in 1920s Paris and Pamplona, trying to find meaning after the war took it all away.
Tender Is the Night
An American couple on the French Riviera watches their marriage disintegrate under the weight of alcoholism, infidelity, and the impossibility of recovering the past.
The House of Doors
In 1921 Somerset Maugham, ill and in debt, stays with an old friend and his wife Lesley in Penang, and Lesley tells him about her past, including her part in Sun Yat-sen's revolution and a scandalous murder trial that gripped the colony.
Babylon Revisited and Other Stories
Fitzgerald stories from 'The Ice Palace' and 'Winter Dreams' to 'The Rich Boy', and the title story of a reformed drinker who returns to Paris after the crash to win back his young daughter.
Giovanni's Room
An American in 1950s Paris confronts his homosexuality through a love affair with an Italian man, and the novel's claustrophobic intensity mirrors the impossibility of the closet.
The Dud Avocado
A 21-year-old American heiress loosed on Paris with pink-dyed hair and an evening dress before breakfast blunders through affairs, parties, and a budding self-knowledge.
Dodsworth
Sam Dodsworth, a newly retired Midwestern car manufacturer, sets off on a long tour of Europe with his restless wife Fran, who is determined to find the life she thinks she has missed.
Jenny
In Rome, Jenny Winge, a twenty-eight-year-old Norwegian painter, accepts a proposal from a younger admirer she doesn't love, and back home in Kristiania his father comes into her life.
The Portrait of a Lady
A young American woman in 1870s Europe navigates suitors, social codes, and the trap of a marriage that looks like freedom but feels like a prison.
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Gertrude Stein writes her own life in the voice of her partner Alice, from the salon at 27 rue de Fleurus with Picasso and Matisse to the First World War and the young Hemingway.
Pavilion of Women
On her fortieth birthday, Madame Wu, the serene mistress of a great Chinese household, announces she will choose a concubine for her husband so that she can at last live for herself.