PalaisRoyal A Novel Author:Richard Sennett Ablaze with intellectual and social change, Paris in the 1830s and 1840s beckons to two English brothers--Frederick and Charles Courtland, an architect and a priest--each of whom is struggling for self-definition and social recognition. Of their lives and this world Sennett has made a remarkable work of fiction that transports the reader into ni... more »neteenth-century Europe and into the nature and inconsistencies of culture and faith, and the way each is shaped by the passage of time.« less