Great reading that provides a sense of the city, from the Traveler online Ultimate Travel Library.
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A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway (1928)
One of the best evocations of Paris in the 1920s, with Pound and Joyce and the Fitzgeralds, among others, "when we were very poor and very happy."
A Sentimental Journey, by Laurence Sterne (1768)
Satirical novel from the author of Tristram Shandy recounts series of dramatic encounters during travels through France and Italy.
Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo (1862)
Epic novel brings to melodramatic life the Battle of Waterloo, the Revolution of 1830, and no end of Parisian local color.
Nadja, by André Breton (1928)
A surrealist masterpiece. A tale of the edge between mysticism and madness, in which the narrator pursues an enigmatic woman through the streets of a dreamlike Paris filled with sphinxes and electric signs.
Paris to the Moon, by Adam Gopnik (2001)
An American's witty and informative account of life with his family in the city, mostly taken from essays published in the New Yorker.
