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A King Alone by Jean Giono; Alyson Waters (Translator); Susan Stewart (Introduction by)
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
An existential detective story by one of France's most popular modern writers, set in a mid-nineteenth century mountain village, available in English for the first time"The book started off entirely by chance, without even a character. The character was the Tree, the Beech, and the starting point--that ...Show more
Angelo by Jean Giono
25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 ...Show more
ENNEMONDE by Giono Jean
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
One of the final novellas by the acclaimed French writer Jean Giono, Ennemonde is a fierce and jubilant portrait of a life intensely lived Ennemonde Girard: Obese. Toothless. Razor-sharp. Loving mother and murderous wife: a character like none other in literature. In telling us Ennemonde's astounding s ...Show more
Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
16.99 AUD
Category: Gardening Landscape Plants
Jean Giono's beautiful allegorical tale is legendary. Written in the 1950's, its message was ahead of its time, inspiring readers to rediscoverthe harmonies of the countryside and prevent its willful destruction. The narrator, journeying by foot across the barren plains of the lower Alps, has his thirst ...Show more
Melville - A Novel by Jean Giono
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Category: Fiction | Series: NYRB Classics | Reading Level: near fine
Moby-Dick looms large in the world's imagination. But by the mid-1930s-eighty years after it first appeared in English, no one had yet translated Melville's great sea-novel into French. The Provencal novelist Jean Giono fell in love with the book. He inspired his friend Lucien Jacques to join him in the ...Show more
Occupation Journal by Jean Giono; Jody Gladding (Translator)
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A renowned writer and committed pacifist throughout the 1930s - a conviction that resulted in his imprisonment before and after the Occupation - Jean Giono spent the war in the village of Contadour in Provence, where he wrote, corresponded with other writers, and cared for his consumptive daughter. This ...Show more
The Horseman on the Roof by Jean Giono
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Category: Fiction
In the white heat the sky is opaque, the air leaden and the light intense. A single cavalryman wonders at the oppressive atmosphere of the unfamiliar countryside he is entering. Exile from his Italian homeland as well as an innate, stubborn pride compel him onward, into the heart of Provence and into th ...Show more
The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
29.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Reading Level: General Adult
This is a beautiful gift edition of this classic fable about one man's quest to create a forest, with a new introduction by Richard Mabey. In 1910, while hiking through the wild lavender in a wind-swept, desolate valley in Provence, a man comes across a shepherd called Elzeard Bouffier. Staying with him ...Show more
The Man Who Planted Trees by Norma L. (AFT) Jean; Goodrich Giono
14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Jean Giono's beautiful allegorical tale is legendary. Written in the 1950's, its message was ahead of its time, inspiring readers to rediscover the harmonies of the countryside and prevent its willful destruction. The narrator, journeying by foot across the barren plains of the lower Alps, has his thirs ...Show more
The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Earth Ser.
'And so, with great care, he planted his hundred acorns'In 1910, while hiking through the wild lavender in a wind-swept, desolate valley in Provence, a man comes across a shepherd called Elzéard Bouffier. Staying with him, he watches Elzéard sorting and then planting hundreds of acorns as he walks throu ...Show more
The Open Road by Jean Giono
35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A nomad and a swindler embark on an eccentric road trip in this picaresque, philosophical novel by the author of The Man Who Planted Trees.The south of France, 1950- A solitary vagabond walks through the villages, towns, valleys, and foothills of the region between northern Provence and the Alps. He pic ...Show more
The Song of the World by Jean Giono
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Simple and magical, The Song of the World is an adventure story for the modern era when two men from France's Provence region embark on a journey to discover the meaning of life. Through writing which is invigorating and fresh, Giono re-presents man's relationship to nature as the two men experience the ...Show more
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