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Author : Colette
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374518653
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (186 download)
Download or read book Collected Stories of Colette written by Colette and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1983 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 100 stories dating from 1908 to 1945.
Author : Judith Thurman
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307789810
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Secrets of the Flesh written by Judith Thurman and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-03-30 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scandalously talented stage performer, a practiced seductress of both men and women, and the flamboyant author of some of the greatest works of twentieth-century literature, Colette was our first true superstar. Now, in Judith Thurman's Secrets of the Flesh, Colette at last has a biography worthy of her dazzling reputation. Having spent her childhood in the shadow of an overpowering mother, Colette escaped at age twenty into a turbulent marriage with the sexy, unscrupulous Willy--a literary charlatan who took credit for her bestselling Claudine novels. Weary of Willy's sexual domination, Colette pursued an extremely public lesbian love affair with a niece of Napoleon's. At forty, she gave birth to a daughter who bored her, at forty-seven she seduced her teenage stepson, and in her seventies she flirted with the Nazi occupiers of Paris, even though her beloved third husband, a Jew, had been arrested by the Gestapo. And all the while, this incomparable woman poured forth a torrent of masterpieces, including Gigi, Sido, Cheri, and Break of Day. Judith Thurman, author of the National Book Award-winning biography of Isak Dinesen, portrays Colette as a thoroughly modern woman: frank in her desires, fierce in her passions, forever reinventing herself. Rich with delicious gossip and intimate revelations, shimmering with grace and intelligence, Secrets of the Flesh is one of the great biographies of our time. NOTE: This edition does not include a photo insert.
Author : Jeanne Schultz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Story of Collette written by Jeanne Schultz and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Colette
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1035048493
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Chéri written by Colette and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2025-05-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Paris’s demi-monde at the beginning of the twentieth century, Chéri by Colette is a passionate story of devotion, misplaced desire and the passage of time. Chéri is part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, pocket-sized classics bound in real cloth with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is translated by Janet Flanner, who was an extraordinary writer and journalist. She was the Paris correspondent for The New Yorker for fifty years. Fred Peloux, affectionately nicknamed Chéri, is handsome and spoilt. Until now he’s lived a life of hedonistic luxury, and has been indulged in his every desire. He is newly married to the young and beautiful Edmée, and according to early twentieth-century Parisian society, he has everything a man could dream of. But the only woman he can think about is his lover, Léa de Lonval, a beautiful, ageing courtesan who has stolen his heart. Full of wit, drama and intensity, Chéri is a groundbreaking novel which grapples with radical ideas about sexuality and ageing. This Macmillan Collector’s Library edition is introduced by acclaimed writer Paul Bailey.
Author : Katherine Collette
Publisher : Atria Books
ISBN 13 : 198211133X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)
Download or read book The Helpline written by Katherine Collette and published by Atria Books. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eccentric woman who is great with numbers—but not so great with people—realizes it’s up to her to pull a community together in this charming, big-hearted debut perfect for fans of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine and The Rosie Project. Germaine Johnson doesn’t need friends. She has her work and her Sudoku puzzles. Until, that is, an incident at her insurance company leaves her jobless—and it turns out that there are very few openings these days for senior mathematicians with zero people skills. Soon enough though, Germaine manages to secure a position at City Hall answering calls on the Senior Citizens Helpline. But it turns out that the mayor has something else in mind for Germaine: a secret project involving the troublemakers at the senior citizens center and their feud with the neighboring golf club—which happens to be run by the dashing yet disgraced national Sudoku champion, Don Thomas, a celebrity of the highest order to Germaine. Don and the mayor want the senior center closed down and at first, Germaine is dedicated to helping them out—it makes sense mathematically, after all. But when Germaine actually gets to know the group of elderly rebels at the senior center, they open her eyes to a life outside of boxes and numbers and for the first time ever, Germaine realizes she may have miscalculated. Filled with an eccentric, totally unique, and (occasionally) cranky cast of characters you can’t help but love, The Helpline is a feel-good page-turner that will make you reexamine what it means to lead a happy life—and is bound to capture your heart along the way.
Author : Katherine Collette
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1922268062
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (222 download)
Download or read book The Competition written by Katherine Collette and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katherine Collette’s much-anticipated and hilarious follow-up to The Helpline, the debut Aussie novel that charmed the world
Author : Collette Divitto
Publisher : Brandylane Publishers, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781947860643
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (66 download)
Download or read book Collette in Kindergarten written by Collette Divitto and published by Brandylane Publishers, Incorporated. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Collette, a young girl with Down syndrome, begins her first year of school, her bubbly personality helps her make friends right away. Soon, Collette notices these new friends are not inviting her to playdates--but it's not because they don't want to invite her. Collette comes up with a great idea to show her classmates' parents a new way of thinking. Based on the real-life experiences of entrepreneur and activist Collette Divitto, "Collette in Kindergarten" shows us how important it is to practice acceptance throughout our lives, just as children do so freely every day.
Author : Colette
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486120406
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book Cheri (Dual-Language) written by Colette and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superb story of a love affair between Lea, a still-beautiful 49-year-old ex-courtesan, and Cheri, a handsome but selfish young man 30 years her junior, is widely considered the author's best work.
Author : Jane Gilmour
Publisher : Hardie Grant Books
ISBN 13 : 1743580673
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (435 download)
Download or read book Colette's France written by Jane Gilmour and published by Hardie Grant Books. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘A biography as sensuously satisfying as a fine French meal. Colette surely would have approved it as much for its aesthetic appeal as for its rare insight and scholarship.’ Robyn Davidson Colette’s France is the remarkable life story of an extraordinary woman, who was known simply as ‘Colette’. This lavishly illustrated biography of the French writer, who was as famous for her novels as for her often controversial life, follows her journey through the landscapes of France where she lived and loved – from a childhood in Burgundy and coming of age in the Belle Époque Paris, to Provence and St Tropez. Jane Gilmour recounts the varied lives of a sensual, artistic, rebellious woman who lived life on her own terms, from prodigious writer and journalist, risqué performer, lover and seducer, businesswoman, baroness, mother, and finally, grand old lady of letters. Dr Jane Gilmour is an Australian with a personal passion and extensive knowledge of Colette and her life. Jane lived in France for many years where she studied the writer at the Sorbonne and completed her thesis on the writer there. Jane has continued her passion for her subject frequently returning to France to write this book and to visit the regions where Colette lived, loved and worked.
Author : Colette
Publisher : Farrar Straus Giroux
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book My Mother's House and Sido written by Colette and published by Farrar Straus Giroux. This book was released on 1953 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal reminiscences.
Author : Colette Freedman
Publisher : Kensington Books
ISBN 13 : 0758281005
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (582 download)
Download or read book The Affair written by Colette Freedman and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When film producer Kathy Walker suspects her husband of being unfaithful, she must decide whether to follow her suspicions at the risk of destroying everything, or trust the man she's been married to for 18 years. Original. A first novel.
Author : Sandrine Collette
Publisher : Europa Editions
ISBN 13 : 1609457307
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (94 download)
Download or read book The Forests written by Sandrine Collette and published by Europa Editions. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sole survivor of a climate apocalypse searches for his adoptive grandmother in the acclaimed French author’s “unforgettable epic” (Le Figaro). Winner of the 2020 Grand Prix RTL-Lire From earliest childhood, Corentin’s life is sad and solitary. Abandoned by his mother, he finally finds a home with Augustine, an old woman who lives deep in the Valley of the Forests. Years later, he moves to the city to pursue his studies—and discovers the dazzling pleasures and distractions of urban life. Around him, though, the world is on fire. Temperatures continue to rise, causing a permanent draught. The rivers of Corentin’s childhood have long dried up; the trees shed their leaves in June. A terrible catastrophe is brewing. The night when the worst happens, Corentin miraculously survives. When he reemerges from the city’s catacombs, he finds a devastated landscape, completely devoid of life. Human, tree, or beast: nothing is left. But Corentin doesn’t give up. Armed with nothing more than hope, he sets off on a journey to find old Augustine.
Author : Isabelle Arsenault
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0553536613
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (535 download)
Download or read book Colette's Lost Pet written by Isabelle Arsenault and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colette can't find something to talk about with the new kids in the neighborhood...so she invents a pet! Her fib quickly escalates, and suddenly her parakeet is a larger-than-life world-traveler named Marie Antoinette. Have her new friends figured out her secret? What will they do? This charming story both clearly identifies the struggle of navigating a different experience, and demonstrates to kids a lovely and welcoming way to treat someone new in their community.
Author : Antonia White
Publisher : Virago
ISBN 13 : 0748127488
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Frost In May written by Antonia White and published by Virago. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Frost in May is the unsurpassed novel of convent school life. This story of a clash between a determined young girl and an authoritarian regime is both perceptive and painfully emotional, convincing in every detail' - Hermione Lee, Observer With a new introduction by Tessa Hadley Nanda Gray, the daughter of a Catholic convert, is nine when she is sent to the Convent of Five Wounds. Quick-witted, resilient and eager to please, she accepts this closed world where, with all the enthusiasm of the outsider, her desires and passions become only those the school permits. Her only deviation from total obedience is the passionate friendships she makes. Convent life is perfectly captured - the smell of beeswax and incense; the petty cruelties of the nuns; the eccentricities of Nanda's school friends. Books in the VMC 40th anniversary series include: Frost in May by Antonia White; The Collected Stories of Grace Paley; Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault; The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter; The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann; Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith; The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West; Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston; Heartburn by Nora Ephron; The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy; Memento Mori by Muriel Spark; A View of the Harbour by Elizabeth Taylor and Faces in the Water by Janet Frame
Author : Colette
Publisher : Penguin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780140089059
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Vagabond written by Colette and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 1986 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a shattering marriage and divorce, Renee Nere is supporting herself as a music-hall artist and confronting the conflicting passions of sex, love, and career. One of the best, most passionate, funniest, saddest, and richly romantic of the great Colette's novels. She's timeless and a must read!
Author : DeVa Gantt
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061867241
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)
Download or read book Decision and Destiny written by DeVa Gantt and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-04-04 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spellbinding saga of a remarkable american family . . . The beautiful, frail Colette Duvoisin trusted governess Charmaine Ryan with her worries, her dreams, and the care of her beloved children. But now Colette is gone—leaving her three young ones devastated . . . and the house of Duvoisin in turmoil. To her children's horror, their father, the enigmatic Frederic Duvoisin, weds his mistress and sister-in-law, Agatha, soon after their mother's untimely death. A scheming and dangerous adversary, Agatha has no love for her predecessor's offspring, ruthlessly wielding her newly won power while guarding her own dark secrets. Meanwhile, a rivalry between Colette's stepsons—suave Paul and cynical John—is reignited, drawing battle lines among family, friends, and servants. When Frederic suddenly emerges from his self-imposed isolation, he touches off a struggle for patriarchal supremacy that threatens to lay the entire Duvoisin empire to waste. At the center of the storm is innocent Charmaine, who must come to terms with shattering truths about the family she once believed she knew—and decide who among them deserves her admiration, her derision, her devotion . . . and her heart.
Author : Colette
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780720612271
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Retreat from Love written by Colette and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the best of the celebrated Claudine novels, this installment follows the sexual and emotional machinations of three upper-class youths in a remote farmhouse, where the protagonist of the series awaits her husband Renaud's return from a Swiss sanatorium. She distracts herself by encouraging her young friend Annie to recount salacious episodes from her love life. When Renaud's homosexual son Marcel arrives, Claudine sets about matchmaking, a fiasco she bitterly regrets. With Renaud's death, Claudine's ennui is transmuted into resigned suffering, but she gradually allows the rhythm and beauty of the natural world to reawaken her desire to live.
