Ford Madox Ford spent his last years in the south of France, near Toulon. In Provence (1935), written four years before his death, he explores both the place and the idea of it: ‘not a country nor the home of a race, but a frame of mind’. Suffused with a northern European’s love for ‘the Roman province that lies beneath the sun’, Provence evokes scents of rosemary and thyme in the dry air, games of boules amid shadows of ancient ruins, the food and flinty local wines. Part memoir,...
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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 384 ● ISBN 9781847776945 ● File size 16.4 MB ● Editor John Coyne & John Coyle ● Publisher Lives and Letters ● City London ● Country GB ● Published 2012 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 2639004 ● Copy protection Social DRM