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The Collected Stories of Colette

By: Colette

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The Collected Stories of Colette

By: Colette

Edited and with an introduction by Robert Phelps The hundred short stories collected here include such masterpieces as 'Bella- Vista', 'The Tender Shoot' and 'Le K- pi', Colette's subtle and ruthless rendering of a woman's belated sexual awakening. Shot through with the colours and flavours of the Parisian world and fertile French countryside, these short stories reverberate with the fine- spun desire, wit and psychological acuity that made Colette unique.

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605

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Arrow

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ISBN 10

0099449080

ISBN 13

9780099449089

My Mother's House and Sido

By: Colette

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My Mother's House and Sido

By: Colette

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 garden, with its inhabitants and its animals; and, especially, to her children, particularly her youngest, whom she called Minet-Chéri. Unlike Gigi and Chéri, which focus largely on sexual love and its repercussions, My Mother's House and Sido center on the compelling figure of a powerful, nurturing woman in late-nineteenth-century rural France, conveying the impact she had on her community and on her daughter—who grew up to be a great writer.

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250

Publisher

Macmillan

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ISBN 10

0374528330

ISBN 13

9780374528331

La Vagabonde

By: Colette

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La Vagabonde

By: Colette

Newly divorced Rene+a7e Ne+a7re+a7, supporting herself as a music-hall entertainer, meets wealthy, idle Maxime and struggles to reconcile her need for love with her need for a life of her own. Reprint.

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239

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Bantam Classics

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ISBN 10

0553214233

ISBN 13

9780553214239

Shipwrecked on a Traffic Island

And Other Previously Untranslated Gems

By: Colette

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Shipwrecked on a Traffic Island

And Other Previously Untranslated Gems

By: Colette

A collection of Colettes best writings that have never before appeared in English. The French writer Colette (18731954) is best known in the United States for such classic novels as Gigi and Cheri, which were made into popular movies, but she was a prolific author. This meticulously translated collection offers some of her best fiction, personal essays, articles, and talks, all appearing in English for the first time. The pieces showcase Colettes gifts as a writer: her deep wisdom about every age of human life, her skill as a storyteller, her wry humor, her persuasive powers, and her foresight as a social critic of issues such as gender roles. The translators combed through journals and past editions of Colettes work to cull these gems, which cover an enormous array of topicsfrom French wines and perfumes to her friendships with Marcel Proust and Maurice Chevalier to uncanny insight into the curious habits of cats and dogs. Selections from an advice column that Colette wrote for the French womens magazine Marie Claire are also included, and her savvy suggestions for the lovelorn stand the test of time. Moving articles written during the two world wars, along with her memories of being an actor and playwright, reveal facets of her writing that are less often celebrated. The first new work by Colette to appear in English in half a century, it will delight devoted fans and new readers alike. Clearly the translators have poetic gifts themselves, a necessary quality to render Colettes airy, evocative, protean shifts in tone and voice, from the flippant to the heartrending in the turn of a phrase. This book reveals in a single volume many luminous facets of Colette as a woman, a French woman, and a writer. Lynn Hoggard, translator of Marie dAgoults Nelida Little gems indeedthis garland of hitherto untranslated short texts by Colette is expertly rendered into idiomatic English by Zack Rogow and Renée Morel, who succeed in retaining the flavor, piquancy, sensuousness, wit, and whimsy of the authors poetic and chiseled prose. Colette, foremost French woman writer of the first half of the twentieth century, is here represented by a range of sketches, mini-essays, reminiscences, portraits, personal confessions, and journalistic pieces including some war articles. The selections, preceded by helpful notes, provide rapid insights into Colettes sense of the human comedy, her love of nature and animals, and her enticing exuberance. Victor Brombert, author of Musings on Mortality: From Tolstoy to Primo Levi

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210

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SUNY Press

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ISBN 10

1438454430

ISBN 13

9781438454436

Book's by Colette Boyard

The Collected Stories of Colette

The Collected Stories of Colette

My Mother's House and Sido

My Mother's House and Sido

La Vagabonde

La Vagabonde

Shipwrecked on a Traffic Island

Shipwrecked on a Traffic Island

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