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Books narrated by Colette

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  • Claudine at School (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A Rebellious Schoolgirl's Coming of Age in Rural France, Where Friendship, Desire, and Satire Collide

    Translated by e-artnow ...
    Claudine at School, first published in 1900, is a sharp, sensuous, and mischievously observant novel of provincial French girlhood. Narrated by the precocious Claudine, it transforms the classroom, the village, and the politics of adolescent friendship into a theatre of desire, rivalry, and social performance. Its style is intimate, ironic, and vividly physical, blending schoolgirl comedy with fin ... Read more

    Was 1,99 € Now 0,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Really Bad Idea

    Everyone has a best friend. Mine just happens to be Dr. Christian Gallagher— the gorgeous, green-eyed heart surgeon who wants to have a baby with me.Yes, you read that correctly.When my mother approached me on my thirty-third birthday with a brochure for egg freezing, it was a glaring reminder that my biological clock is ticking toward its expiration date. I’ve always dreamed of being a mom and ... Read more

    0,90 €

  • Chéri

    by Colette ...
    Translated by Belinda Jack ...
    Chéri: spoiled, petulant, beautiful, aged twenty-five. Léa: magnificent, brilliant, remorseless, aged forty-nine. They are in love, but their relationship exists beyond the bounds of social acceptability and must one day come to an end, no matter the cost.A succ**ès de scandale on publication for its depiction of transgressive love, Colette’s celebrated novella is also a profound and compelling ... Read more

    8,99 €

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  • Claudine's House

    by Colette ...
    Translated by Belinda Jack ...
    Colette's irresistible depiction of a childhood in rural France, in a lush new translation‘I will never be able to help anyone imagine the splendour, bound up in my memories’Claudine lives in a large house with a rose-filled garden and a vegetable patch smelling of tomato leaves and apricots. Beyond it is the village, where travelling performers stop for the night and wedding feasts take place ... Read more

    8,99 €

  • Gigi

    by Colette ...
    Translated by Belinda Jack ...
    ‘Fine teeth, my girl. With teeth like that I’d have gobbled up Paris and the rest of the world.'Gigi, a teenage girl in fin-de-siècle Paris, is being groomed by her family to become a high-class courtesan, just like her aunt and grandmother before her. But despite their best efforts, their timid protégée may have other ideas for her future...Colette's famous novella is a sly and delicate depiction ... Read more

    8,99 €

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  • The Pure and the Impure

    by Colette ...
    Translated by Rachel Careau ...
    Journey through the sexual underworld of Belle Époque Paris in the first new English translation of Colette’s masterpiece in nearly sixty years.Lyrical, allusive, sometimes obscure, yet precise, The Pure and the Impure has elicited equal parts consternation and praise since its publication nearly 100 years ago. Colette herself was unequivocal: “I believe it to be my best book.” Through strikingly ... Read more

    16,42 €

  • The Life I Left Behind

    A must-read taut and twisty psychological thriller

    I know who attacked her. The same man who killed me...Six years ago Melody was left for dead. When the body of another woman, Eve, is discovered, Melody knows her attacker is still out there. The only way she can survive is to follow the clues of the life that Eve left behind.A gripping psychological thriller that will keep you gripped to the page. With rave reviews from Paula Hawkins and Marian ... Read more

    3,99 €

  • Chéri

    by Colette ...
    Series series Macmillan Collector's Library
    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 ... Read more

    5,71 €

  • Claudine at School

    by Colette ...
    Series series Macmillan Collector's Library
    Claudine lives in a small rural village in France and attends the local girls school. Headstrong, rebellious and a lover of mischief, she knows how to fill her days with adventure.Claudine at School 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 ... Read more

    4,23 €

  • The Collected Stories Of Colette

    by Colette ...
    Edited and with an introduction by Robert PhelpsThe 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 ... Read more

    8,99 €

  • The Vagabond

    by Colette ...
    Translated by Belinda Jack ...
    Colette's subversive and witty tale of a woman's bid for freedom in Belle Époque France, in a fresh new Penguin Classics translation‘It’s definitely me there, covered in purple rouge, eyes ringed with a halo of blue greasepaint that’s beginning to melt’Renée, aged thirty-three and divorced from her serially unfaithful husband, reinvents herself as a dancer and mime artist in France’s music halls. ... Read more

    8,99 €

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  • Cheri

    by Colette ...
    Ch�ri, first published in 1920, is considered Colette's finest novel. Exquisitely handsome, spoilt and sardonic, Ch�ri is the only son of a wealthy courtesan, a contemporary of L�a, the magnificent and talented woman who for six years has devoted herself to his amorous education.When a rich marriage is arranged for Ch�ri, L�a reluctantly decides their relationship must end. Ch�ri, despite his ... Read more

    8,99 €