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Jean Giono

Works by Jean Giono

Two Riders of the Storm [Buy Direct]

by Jean Giono
Translated by Alan Brown
Original title: DEUX CAVALIERS DE L’ORAGE

‘A violent but beautiful story of the love between two brothers . . . a novelist of great originality. (more...)

The Man Who Planted Trees [Buy Direct]

by Jean Giono

A moving parable of a worthwhile life; that of Elzéard Bouffier, the ‘Johnny Appleseed’ of a deafforestated Provence who spends his time ranging over the barren hills raising and planting trees. He does this entirely on his own initiative, because he knows it simply needs to be done. (more...)

The Serpent of Stars [Buy Direct]

by Jean Giono

Angélique

by Jean Giono
Translated by A. Murch
Original title: ANGELO; ROMAN

To the Slaughterhouse

by Jean Giono
Translated by N. Glass
Original title: LE GRAND TROUPEAU

‘Few books about the First World War have achieved a sharper intensity. (more...)

Two Riders of the Storm [Buy Direct]

by Jean Giono
Translated by A. Brown

Angélique

by Jean Giono
Translated by Alma E. Murch
Original title: ANGELO

The Straw Man [Buy Direct]

by Jean Giono
Translated by Phyllis Johnson
Original title: LE BONHEUR FEU

The Malediction

by Jean Giono
Translated by P. De Mendelssohn
Original title: Moulin de Polognz

The Hussar on the Roof

by Jean Giono
Translated by J. Griffin
Original title: Le Hussard sur le toit

Giono initially thought of The Horseman on the Roof as an episode of a bigger project — a work of architectural proportions — in ten volumes à la Balzac, but it grew on him so much that it became the pièce de résistance of a much shortened ‘Hussar cycle’. (more...)

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