Paris - Penguin Modern Classics

'The most bizarre and delicious of travel books'Observer

Julian Green was born to American parents in Paris in 1900, and spent most of his life in the French capital. Parisis an extraordinary, lyrical love letter to the city, taking the readeron an imaginative journey around its secret stairways, courtyards,alleys and hidden places. Whether evoking the cool of a deserted churchon a hot summer's day, remembering Notre Dame in a winter storm in 1940,describing chestnut trees lit up at night like 'Japanese lanterns' orlamenting the passing of street cries and old buildings, his book isfilled with unforgettable imagery. It is a meditation on getting lostand wasting time, and on what it truly means to know a city.

'Truthful, unpretentious and haunting'The Times Literary Supplement