La maison de Claudine (French Edition)
 first Colette: in this book Colette talks us about her childhood and her encounters with nature, the relationship with her mother and first amourous experiences. I think that it is not the best book from colette, I would recommend La Vagabonde Author: [... more]
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Earthly Paradise: An Autobiography of Colette Drawn from ...
A lovely, lyrical portrait of a rich, fulfilled life.: This book has been on my nightstand for over a year. Every evening, I read just a morsel of Colette's beautiful prose and savor it slowly, like a decadent piece of chocolate. Since this is an " [... more]
$16.00
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Collected Stories of Colette
If you love Colette, these are absolute gems: Ok. You've read the Claudine novels, and Cheri and the Return of Cheri. Now what? There are other novels (The Vagabond, Gigi, My Mother's House) but there are these short stories that are "must-reads.& [... more]
$22.50
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La Vagabonde
My favorite of Collette's Works: It takes awhile to get used to Collette's unique style, but once I was used to it I grew to enjoy it. La Vagabonde is a fascinating look into the Dance Hall world, but more importantly, a wonderful study of a woman of [... more]
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Gigi, Julie de Carneilha, and Chance Acquaintances: ...
Book Description: 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 desires of the heart. But Gigi is uninterested in the dishonest society life she [... more]
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The Complete Claudine: Claudine at School; Claudine in ...
The Five O'Clock Abyss: "Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: 'It's four [... more]
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The Vagabond
Way ahead of her time: Colette's Renee Nere is complex, her name alone tells us that (the last name is the first name spelled backwards, not to mentioned that Renee means "reborn"). This female protagonist would certainly fit in with the modern [... more]
$14.00
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Gigi (Le Livre de Poche) (French Edition)
First Love: Gigi was the first novel I read in French, and at the time that I read it, probably it was the raciest book I ever read, I was a mere lad of I don't know, eleven or so. I couldn't figure out exactly who was who. I tried reading GONE WITH THE [... more]
$14.95
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Chéri (French Edition)
Very classic, richly layered, and readable.: Cheri is a novel about a young Frenchman whose mistress, an older woman, indulges him and instructs him in the arts of love and life until he marries. Cheri is remarkably child-like right up to the eve of his [... more]
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La maison de Claudine (French Edition)
first Colette: in this book Colette talks us about her childhood and her encounters with nature, the relationship with her mother and first amourous experiences. I think that it is not the best book from colette, I would recommend La Vagabonde Author: [... more]
$21.99
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The Boy and the Spell (Musical Stories series)
Enchanting and relative to elementary-school children: I read this story to my 9-year-old son and not only was he transfixed by the engaging illustrations, he could also relate to the protagonist of the story--a boy about his age struggling to do his [... more]
$16.95
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Belles Saisons: A Colette Scrapbook
a picture saves a thousand words: The story of Colette in her "own" words is really a montage of images. The attempt to make it appear as if the photographs were compiled and edited by her own hands are convincing. There are many biographies on [... more]
$15.00
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