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The Complete Claudine: Claudine at School/Claudine in Paris/Claudine Married/Claudine and Annie

Colette

The stories that inspired the film Colette, directed by Wash Westmoreland and starring Keira Knightley.

Colette, prodded by her first husband, Willy, began her writing career with Claudine at School, which catapulted the young author into instant, sensational success. Among the most autobiographical of Colette's works, these four novels are dominated by the child-woman Claudine, whose strength, humor, and zest for living make her seem almost a symbol for the life force.

Janet Flanner described these books as "amazing writing on the almost girlish search for the absolute of happiness in physical love . . . recorded by a literary brain always wide awake on the pillow."

Book Details

  • Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
  • Publish Date: Sep 5th, 2001
  • Pages: 656
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - 0002
  • Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.40in - 1.90in - 1.25lb
  • EAN: 9780374528034
  • Categories: ClassicsLiteraryWorld Literature - France - 20th Century

About the Author

Colette: - Born in 1873 in France, Colette was the author of many acclaimed novels noted for their intimate style. Colette titles from FSG include Gigi, Julie de Carneilhan, and Chance Acquaintances, The Complete Claudine, Chéri and The Last of Chéri, and The Complete Stories of Colette. She died in 1954.
Thurman, Judith: - Judith Thurman is the author of Cleopatra's Nose: 39 Varieties of Desire; Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller, winner of the National Book Award for Autobiography/Biography; and Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette. A staff writer at The New Yorker, she lives in New York City.

Praise for this book

"The paradoxes of great literature are those of human nature, and Colette is nothing if not human . . . Accessible and elusive; greedy and austere; courageous and timid; subversive and complacent; scorchingly honest and sublimely mendacious; an inspired consoler and an existential pessimist--these are the qualities of the artist and the woman. Its is time to rediscover them." --From the Introduction

"Delighted and quivering with life . . . Imbued with the most characteristic elements of the personality we have come to call simply Colette." --Robert Phelps, The New York Times