A Narrow Street

By Elliot Paul,

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Elliot Paul first went to France during the first World War where he served as a sergeant in the AEF. It was at the end of the war that he began the long residence in Paris in which he tells in A Narrow Street.

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1 author picked A Narrow Street as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

A fascinatingly evocative study of one small quarter of Paris in the Twenties.

Elliot Paul, an American journalist, an intimate of the ‘Lost Generation' first walked into rue de la Huchette in the summer of 1923. "There," he wrote, "I found Paris." This atmospheric study of the life in a cramped street brings to life a cast of characters so vividly that you feel you are living among them.  

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