{"product_id":"parisians-an-adventure-history-of-paris","title":"Graham Robb: Parisians [2010] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e`Quirky, amused and tres British' JULIAN BARNES\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e `A collection of true stories, culled from Robb's insatiable historical reading and lit by his imagination . . . So richly pleasurable that you feel it might emit a warm glow if you left it in a dark room' JOHN CAREY, Book of the Week, \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e `Robb has focused on what really matters, the human beings who shaped, or who were occasionally defeated by, their city . . . . Marvellously entertaining, boundingly energetic and original' PHILIP HENSHER, \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e No-one knows a city like the people who live there - so who better to relate the history of Paris than its inhabitants through the ages? Taking us from 1750 to the new millennium, Graham Robb's \u003ci\u003eParisians\u003c\/i\u003e is at once a book to read from cover to cover, to lose yourself in, to dip in and out of at leisure, and a book to return to again and again - rather like the city itself, in fact.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e `If you delight in the historical equivalent of finding a tiny restaurant frequented only by locals . . . then Robb will sate your appetite' \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e `The great and daring trick Robb pulls off is to make the familiar so unfamiliar that in every sense it is like seeing the city anew' \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Robb, Graham","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47786287694163,"sku":"XV80330536233","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/robb-graham-parisians-an-adventure-history-of-paris-xv80330536233-54836688453971.jpg?v=1710016706","url":"https:\/\/keatsandchapman.info\/products\/parisians-an-adventure-history-of-paris","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}