A woman reader said, I couldn't put it down. Rose, Ma Petite is a heartwarming saga about an incredible woman set in nineteenth century Paris, New Orleans and the Atlantic Ocean. Readers admire her nature, envy her beauty and marvel at her adventures. ROSE RAeNAUD comes to Paris in 1863 seeking fame and fortune: a certainty with her beauty and brains. She's a fledgling and pure as Mary, but she becomes a beloved tease in Paris' sidewalk cafes. Paris is obsessed with diversity. It has never been so naughty and delightful, and Emperor Louis Napoleon III is the trendsetter. Sitting in a sidewalk cafe with brother MAURICE, influential FRANA OISE HAUSMAN and her French Poodle stroll by. Peppe pulls free. Maurice chases, captures and returns him. The Renauds' indigent lives are changed forever. It's a beautiful rags to riches story.

Max Jacob, central figure of early 20th-century Parisian bohemia along with Picasso and Apollinaire, was active at the emergence of Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Dada and Surrealism. But in spite of his close connections with modernism - epitomized by his seminal book of prose poems Le Cornet a des (1916) - Jacob remains a marginal figure. His Breton-Jewish otherness, conversion to Catholicism, and death under the Nazis in 1944 adds to the enigma and shifts the critical focus further still. But Jacobs poetic playfulness - his many-faceted irony, wordplay, narrative heterogeneity, tragi-comedy, self- reflexivity and polyphony - may begin to offer insights into his esprit createur, which, true to the (post)modernist vision, is not to be found in the usual ways. For the aim of Max Jacob, connoisseur of traditional storytelling as well as spearhead of the literary vanguard, is to jolt the unconscious, the energetic kernel of creativity.

Biografi om den franske billedhugger, der levede 1840-1917

Written by an amateur gardener for amateurs, Rose Kingsley's 1908 work shares her practical experience cultivating roses with those interested in cultivating their own.