Palais-Royal

by Richard Sennett

Book Overview

Ablaze with intellectual and social change, Paris in the 1830s and 1840s beckons to two English brothers-Frederick and Charles Courtland, an architect and a priest-each of whom is struggling for self-definitionand social recognition. Of their lives and this world Sennett has made a remarkable work of fiction that transports the reader into nineteenth century Europe and into the nature and inconsistencies of culture and faith, and the way each is shaped...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394545389
• ISBN13: 9780394545387
• Release Date: December 1986
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.