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A Chair on the Boulevard

Author
Leonard Merrick
Language
English
Length
174 pages
ISBN
9781836105527
Published
8 October 2026
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Paris café life
  • artistic ambition
  • struggling writers
  • bohemian culture
  • emotional disillusionment
  • love and loss
  • creative pursuit
  • urban life
  • musical inspiration
  • human condition

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In A Chair on the Boulevard, Leonard Merrick delivers a light-hearted, satirical anthology capturing the quintessential Bohemian lifestyle of early 20th-century Paris. The witty short stories center on struggling artists, poets, and musicians—like the recurring character Gustave Tricotrin—as they navigate romantic entanglements, financial poverty, and creative ambition with enduring optimism amid the cafes and streets of Montmartre.

Author

Leonard Merrick (1864–1939) was the English novelist other novelists kept recommending. Joseph Conrad admired him; so did a generation that valued craft over noise. Merrick wrote of theatre people, money worries, and the almost-made-it — characters who can see success and cannot quite grasp it. His prose is professional in the best sense: polished, observant, and quietly devastating.

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