Jean Giono - Böcker

Jean Giono (1895 1970), en av Frankrikes främsta 1900-talsförfattare, föddes och levde hela sitt liv i norra Provence, där flertalet av hans många verk också tilldrar sig. I fabeln Mannen som planterade träd, ursprungligen skriven 1953 på beställn...

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Aubignane på det provensalska hög landet håller på att förvandlas till en ödeby. Bara tre trogna själar bor ännu kvar bland sönderfallande hus och igenvuxna trädgårdstäppor. Men den annalkande vintern tvingar iväg den gamle smeden, och brunnsgräva...

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I ett av de fyra övervuxna husen i den ödsliga provensalska byn på kullens sluttning ligger gubben Janet på sitt yttersta. I sin krafts dagar besatt han en trollkraft som fick byn att blomstra. Nu yrar han hemlighetsfulla oroande ord. Snart följer...

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'And so, with great care, he planted his hundred acorns' While hiking through the wild lavender in a wind-swept, desolate valley in Provence, a man comes across a solitary shepherd called Elzard Bouffier. Staying with him, he watches Elz...

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Det är skördetid i Provence. På krogen firar daglönarna söndagskvällen med att dricka vin. Gamle Amédée fäster sig vid den tystlåtne Albin och blir hans förtrogne. Albin kommer från bergsbyn Baumugnes. Tre år tidigare hade han blivit förälskad i A...

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In An Italian Journey, Jean Giono describes his journey to the land of his father's people. A reluctant traveler (he rarely left Provence), Giono discovers a strange beauty not only in the palazzi and canals of Venice but also in wistful waiters, ...

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Perhaps no other of his novels better reveals Giono's perfect balance between lyricism and narrative, description and characterization, the epic and the particular, than "The Horseman on the Roof." This novel, which Giono began writing i...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the Unit...

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text ...

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BLUE BOY by JEAN GIONO. CHAPTER I. Mof my age here remember the time when he road to Sainte-Tulle was bordered by a erried row of poplars. It is a Lombard cus om to plant poplars along the wayside. This road came, with its procession of trees, fro...

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Perhaps no other of his novels better reveals Giono's perfect balance between lyricism and narrative, description and characterization, the epic and the particular, than The Horseman on the Roof. This novel, which Giono began writing in 1934 and w...

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Blue Boy is a 1932 novel by the French writer Jean Giono. It tells the story of a family in Provence, with an ironer mother and a shoemaker father. The book is largely autobiographical and based on Giono's childhood, although it has many fictional...

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A book for children from 8 to 80. I love the humanity of this story and how one man s efforts can change the future for so many. It s a real message of hope. Michael MorpurgoDiscover this beloved masterpiece of nature writing that is a hymn to cre...

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This novel is a fictionalized autobiography of the author's boyhood in the the countryside of Provence, told through the eyes of a child.

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In France's Provence region, two men embark on a journey to discover the meaning of life. The novel re-presents man's relationship to nature as the two men experience the wonders of the world.

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In the fall of 1849, Herman Melville traveled to London to deliver his novel White-Jacket to his publisher. On his return to America, Melville would write Moby-Dick. Melville: A Novel imagines what happened in between: the adventurous writer fleei...

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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 This is the first English-language translation of Jean Giono's 1947 masterpiec...

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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 . South of France, 1950: A solitary vagabond walks through the villages, towns, valleys, and foothills of th...

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Jean Giono's beautiful allegorical tale is legendary. Written in the 1950s, its message was ahead of its time, inspiring readers to rediscover the harmonies of the countryside and prevent its wilful destruction. The narrator, journeying by foot ac...

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'A book for children from 8 to 80. I love the humanity of this story and how one man's efforts can change the future for so many.' Michael Morpurgo, Independent '[This] simple classic may just hold the secret to meaningful exis...

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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 ot...

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One of the final novellas by the acclaimed French writer Jean Giono, Ennemonde is a winding tale of people living in a hard yet beautiful land. "Roads move cautiously around the High Country..." So begins the story of Ennemonde, but also...

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"Giono's prose is a singularly fine blend of realism and poetic sensibility." -- The Washington Post Giono's very own Moby-Dick , a sensational maritime journey that follows a crew inwards on a spiritual tale of evocative sea-glimpses An...

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