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The horseman on the roof
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Begun in 1934 and published in France in 1951, this is a tale about the return of an Italian nobleman to his native land, which he was forced to leave after his involvement in a duel. En route, he encounters a cholera epidemic, not to mention corpses, criminals, and rioting townspeople. In addition to being a chronicle about the transformation of ...
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Man Who Planted Trees
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An allegorical tale, urging readers to rediscover the harmonies of the countryside and prevent its wilful destruction.
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Joy of Man's Desiring
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A true forebear of magical realism, Giono creates men and women rooted in the folklore of provincial France. With a poet's grace and imagination, he weaves a grand story of the earth and of passion, of animals and weather, of the miracles we now call the laws of nature.
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The song of the world
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A tale of primitive love and vendetta set in the timeless French landscape of river, mountain and forest. Sailor, a woodsman, has twin sons, the elder of whom is dead and the younger, the red-head, has gone missing upcountry where the powerful landowner Maudru holds sway. With his friend Antonio, the riverman, he goes in search of the boy, fearing ...
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Harvest
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A true forebear of magical realism, Giono creates men and women rooted in the folklore of provincial France. With a poet's grace and imagination, he weaves a grand story of the earth and of passion, of animals and weather, of the miracles we now call the laws of nature.
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Blue Boy
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Giono's poetic--and largely autobiographical--story of a French boy called Jean le Bleu, from early childhood to his coming-of-age in World War I.
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Hussard Sur Le Toit, Le
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The Man Who Planted Trees: With a Guide for the Woodwise Consumer
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The hero of the story, Elzeard Bouffier, spent his life planting one hundred acorns a day in a desolate, barren section of Provence, France. The result was a total transformation of the landscape -- from one devoid of life, with miserable, contentious inhabitants, to one filled with the scent of flowers, the songs of birds, and fresh, flowing ...
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The Serpent of Stars
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Jean Giono, Professor Jody Gladding (Translator)
"Giono has created his own private terrestrial domain, a mythical domain . . . It is a region over which the stars and planets course with throbbing pulsations. It is a land in which things happen to men as aeons ago they happened to the gods . . ."-Henry Miller In "The Serpent of Stars," the narrator encounters a potter's family, whose way of ...
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Le Chant Du Monde
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Un de Baumugnes.
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An Italian Journey
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Jean Giono, John Cumming (Translator)
Giono's account of his travels in Italy deals with not only the sights he saw but why he felt compelled to travel in the first place and how travel is a transformative experience.
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The straw man
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The Solitude of Compassion
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Jean Giono, Edward Ford (Translator), Lydia Davis (Foreword by)
Introduced by Henry Miller, these 20 stories, which were first published in 1932, are set in the Provence countryside, and reveal the dark side of peasant life.
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Que Ma Joie Demeure
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Jean le Bleu
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L'Homme Qui Plantait Des Arbres
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Angelo
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Angelo, a young Hussar colonel and expert swordsman, has had to escape into France from his native Piedmont after killing an Austrian police-spy in a duel. Travelling the roads of Provence disguised as a French workman, he falls in with an eccentric marquise, Celine de Theus, and becomes a guest at the chateau, where she lives with her elderly ...
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Second Harvest
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In the village of Aubignane only three inhabitants remain - the blacksmith, a widow and Panturle, the hunter. Soon Panturle is abandoned and begins to lose his mind. But then a woman arrives and life is restored to the village as Panturle plants wheat to produce a second harvest.
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Homme Qui Plantait Des Arbres
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Colline (Le Livre De Poche)
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Great Houses of Italy
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Le Voyage En Caleche
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Jean Giono, Albert Decaris (Illustrator), Jerome LeRoy (Preface by)
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Ennemonde: A Novel,
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El Hombre Que Plantaba Arboles
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