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Break of Day by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette; Enid McLeod (Translator); Judith Thurman (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction
Colette began writing Break of Day in her early fifties, at Saint-Tropez on the C te 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 existence supported and enriched by the beauty and peace ...Show more
Claudine Married (Claudine #3) by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Claudine's marriage to Renaud has settled into a pattern of bickering and inattention. Just as she begins to fear herself confined to a stifled existence, a chance meeting with a friend's wife, the beautiful Rezi, draws her into an impassioned affair.
Claudine and Annie by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
In this final novel in Colette's famous series it is Claudine's friend Annie who tells the story in the form of a private diary. Claudine is happily settled with her adored husband Renaud, spending her time giving wide and worldly advice to despairing Annie whose life with the boring and dominating Alai ...Show more
Claudine at School (Claudine #1) by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Claudine is a head strong, clever and extremely mischievous schoolgirl. Along with her friends the lanky Anais, the cheerful Marie and the prim Joubert twins Claudine wreaks havoc on her small school. Always clever, witty and charming Claudine is more than a match for her formidable headmistress as they ...Show more
Claudine in Paris (Claudine #2) by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
Claudine is in despair, having left her beloved Montigny for a new life in Paris. But her instinctive curiosity gradually leads to an awakened interest in the city. She records her witty observations and adventures amongst the intriguing characters that surround her.
Gigi and the Cat by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette; Roger Senhouse (Translator); Antonia White (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: Twentieth Century Classics Ser.
In these two superb stories of the politics of love, Colette is at her witty, instinctive best. Gigi is being educated in the skills of the Courtesan: to choose cigars, to eat lobster, to enter a world where a woman's chief weapon is her body. However, when it comes to the question of Gaston Lachaille, ...Show more
The Vagabond by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette; Enid McLeod (Translator); Judith Thurman (Introduction by)
Category: Fiction
Thirty-three years-old and recently divorced, Ren e N r 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 marriage. A provincial tour puts distance between them and e ...Show more
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