Peter Mayle Libri

Max Skinner è un trentenne in carriera nel mondo sempre più difficile della finanza londinese, finché un giorno perde il posto presso la prestigiosa compagnia dei fratelli Lawton. Per fortuna ci sono le coincidenze, perché proprio quello stesso giorno riceve una lettera da un notaio francese: lo zio Henry gli ha lasciato in eredità la sua casa in Provenza, dove Max passava le vacanze estive quand'era ragazzo. Nella sua situazione l'idea di restarsene per qualche tempo in quella vecchia villa circondata dalle vigne è semplicemente irresistibile. Ma anche tra le dolci colline del Luberon, e precisamente nel villaggio di Saint-Pons, le cose non sono semplici come sembrano: circolano simpatie e antipatie, avidità e sotterfugi, e c'è chi vuoi mettere le mani su qualcosa che non gli appartiene. A Max servono un altro pizzico di fortuna e un po' di intuito, qualche amico e forse l'amore. E magari la voglia, o il sogno, di cambiare davvero vita.

An indispensable, richly informative, and always entertaining sourcebook on Provence by the writer who has made the region his own.Though organized from A to Z, this is hardly a conventional work of reference. It is rather a selection of those aspects of Provence that Peter Mayle in almost twenty years there has found to be the most interesting, curious, delicious, or down-right fun.In more than 170 entries he writes about subjects as wide-ranging as architecture and zingue-zingue-zoun (in the local patois, a word meant to describe the sound of a violin), as diverse as expatriates, Aix-en-Provence, the Provençal character, legends, lavender, linguistic oddities, the museum of the French Foreign Legion, the museum of the corkscrew, the origins of “La Marseillaise,” and a bawdy folklore character named Fanny.And, of course, he writes about food and vin rosé, truffles, olives, melons, bouillabaisse, the cheese that killed a Roman emperor, even a cure for indigestion. The wonderful accompanying artwork includes curiosities Mayle has gathered over the years — matchbooks, drawings, century-old ads, photos, tourist brochures, maps.Provence A-Z is a delight for Peter Mayle’s ever-growing audience and the perfect complement to any guidebook on Provence, or, for that matter, France.

A guide to male and female anatomy, methods of birth control, and veneral disease.

A manual for teaching young children about the facts of life.

Peter Mayle is back in Provence, after pining away in America for the sights, sounds and smells of his beloved French home. This new book completes his trilogy on the delights and curiosities of Provencal life, as he rediscovers the local customs and "cuisine" and finds them as enchanting as ever. There are, of course, some gastronomic treats to be had on the way, including a feast at a converted petrol station and a rendezvous with the famous "Marseillaise bouillabaisse". But when lunch is over there are still more moments to relish : learning the secrets of perfume-blending at a school for "noses", the story of a "crime passionnel" perpetrated by a jealous husband on an oversexed, cycling-short wearing butcher, a connoisseur of funerals, a grower of black tomatoes, and the simple pleasure of finding the best way to idle away a lazy summer afternoon

A personal description of Provencal life as seen through the eyes of the author and his wife when they move into an old farmhouse at the foot of the Luberon mountains between Avignon and Aix. The bestselling work of non-fiction in paperback of 1991 in the UK.

In this charming guide to the pleasures of Provence, Mayle delivers a delightful meditation on the rich pleasures of the humble loaf. Includes precise instructions for making 14 kinds of bread. 25 drawings & 6 photos in text.