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Colette
Full Series List in Order
Related Books
1 - Cheri ()2 - Last of Cheri (Jun-2002)
3 - The Shackle ()
4 - Claudine at School (Sep-1982)
5 - Claudine and Annie ()
6 - Claudine in Paris (Nov-1982)
7 - Claudine Married ()
Book List in Order: 33 titles
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The Pure and the Impure
- Jan-1967
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Colette herself considered The Pure and the Impure her best book, "the nearest I shall ever come to writing an autobiography." This guided tour of the erotic netherworld with which Colette was so intimately acquainted begins in the darkness and langu...
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The Ripening Seed
- Sep-1975
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During their final summer of shared childhood and innocence on the Brittany coast, Philippe and Vinca struggle with new, unsettling feelings for one another, a struggle heightened by Philippe's sexual initiation under the tutelage of the expert Madam...
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The Other Woman
- Dec-1975
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This volume brings together for the first time in English a collection including a series of stories and a novella, formed of a group of linked autobiographical pieces first published posthumously in France as Mon Amie Valentine....
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Creatures Great and Small
- Sep-1978
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Creatures Great and Small consists of three books that were originally published separately and contain the imagined conversations that go on between Colette's bulldog and Angora cat. Whether Colette is describing a goldfish, snake, or bear, she ... -
The Vagabond
- May-1982
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Thirty-three years-old and recently divorced, Renée Néré has begun a new life on her own, supporting herself as a music-hall artist. Maxime, a rich and idle bachelor, intrudes on her independent existence and offers his love and the comforts of marri...
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Break of Day
- May-1983
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Colette began writing Break of Day in her early fifties, at Saint-Tropez on the Côte d''Azur, where she had bought a small house after the breakup of her second marriage. The novel''s theme-the renunciation of love and the return to an independent ex...
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Letters from Colette
- Aug-1983
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The first collection in English of the French author's savory, sparkling letters to such contemporaries as Ravel, Proust, and Cocteau, filled with her inimitably fresh, earthy viewpoints on Parisian life...
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Duo and Le Toutounier
- Mar-2000
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In Duo, Colette observes, with masterly astuteness and perception, two characters whose marriage is foundering on the wife's infidelity. Acting out the final crisis, Alice and Michel have the stage to themselves so that nothing is allowed to distract...
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Cheri/Cheri
- Jun-2001
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Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873â€"1954), one of the most popular and best loved of modern French writers, became known simply as Colette when she married in 1893. Her husband, a Parisian man-about-town and the son of a major publisher, made use of...
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Gigi, Julie de Carneilha, and Chance Acquaintances
- Oct-2001
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Two volumes of Colette's most beloved works, with a new Introduction by Judith Thurman.
Perhaps Colette's best-known work, Gigi is the story of a young girl being raised in a household more concerned with success and money than with the desi...
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Last of Cheri
- Jun-2002
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Cheri and The Last Of Cheri involve a tragic/comic love affair. Colette (1873-1954) is the pseudonym for Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette. She is best known in English speaking countries for her novel Gigi, which was later the source for the Lerner & Loewe ...
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My Mother's House and Sido
- Jun-2002
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In My Mother's House and Sido, Colette plays fictional variations on the themes of childhood, family, and, above all, her mother. Vividly alive, fond of cities, music, theater, and books, Sido devoted herself to her village, Saint-Saveur; to her gard...
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Peace Be Still
- Jul-2002
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A poignant first novel steeped in the tradition of the great southern storytellers, Colette weaves past and present, humor and tragedy, to tell the tale of an unlikely friendship between two women as they search to tame their demons. Peace Be Still t...
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Cheri the Last of Cheri
- Nov-2008
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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice An exquisite new translation of Colette’s tragicomic masterpiece, a pair of novels exploring the relationship between an aging courtesan and a much younger man.Chéri and its sequel, The End of Chéri, m...
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Barks And Purrs
According to Wikipedia: "Colette was the surname of the French novelist Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (28 January 1873 â€" 3 August 1954). She is best known for her novel Gigi (upon which the stage and film musical comedies by Lerner & Loewe, of the ...
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Cheri
Widely considered the author's best work, this story of a love affair between Lea, a still-beautiful 49-year-old, and Cheri, selfish young man 30 years her junior, is a superb study of age and sexuality. While the theme of a young man who deserts his...
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Claudine Married
Following the excitement of a shared life in Paris, Claudine's marriage to the distinguished Renaud has settled into a stale pattern of bickering conversations and mutual inattention. Just as Claudine begins to fear herself confined to a stifled exis...
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The Other One
Jane is Farou's secretary and mistress, as well as the admirer and constant companion of his wife. Colette exposes the subtle torments of living with infidelity, the capacity for suffering and the ruthlessness of women in love. The novel's emotional ...
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