90 Classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books
I had never really wanted a photograph of a picture before I saw Millet's Man With the Hoe. I was about twelve or thirteen years old, I had read Eugenie Grandet of Balzac, and I did have some feelings about what french country was like but The Man With the Hoe made it different, it made it ground not country, and France has been that to me ever since. France is made of ground, of earth.
Gertrude Stein’s Paris France, published in 1940 on the day Paris fell to Nazi Germany, is a witty account of Stein’s life in France, and the perfect introduction to her work.
