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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

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‘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
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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

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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
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Claudine at School

by Colette ...

Narrated by Barbara McCulloh ...

Unabridged

8 hours 3 min

“Two months ago, when I passed my fifteenth birthday, I let my skirts down to my ankles, the old schoolhouse was razed and the schoolmistress changed. The long skirts were demanded by my legs which were attracting attention and already gave me the look of a young woman; the old school was falling to pieces; and as for the teacher, poor good woman, forty, ugly, ignorant, mild and always terrified ... Read more

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“Two months ago, when I passed my fifteenth birthday, I let my skirts down to my ankles, the old schoolhouse was razed and the schoolmistress changed. The long skirts were demanded by my legs which were attracting attention and already gave me the look of a young woman; the old school was falling to pieces; and as for the teacher, poor good woman, forty, ugly, ignorant, mild and always terrified
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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

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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
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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

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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
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Chéri and The End of Chéri

by Colette ...

Translated by Paul Eprile ...

Colette's celebrated novels about an older courtesan and her young lover, now in a new translation and published in one volume.Colette’s Chéri (1920) and its sequel, The End of Chéri (1926), are widely considered her masterpieces. In sensuous, elegant prose, the two novels explore the evolving inner lives and the intimate relationship of an unlikely couple: Léa de Lonval, a middle-aged former ... Read more

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Colette's celebrated novels about an older courtesan and her young lover, now in a new translation and published in one volume.Colette’s Chéri (1920) and its sequel, The End of Chéri (1926), are widely considered her masterpieces. In sensuous, elegant prose, the two novels explore the evolving inner lives and the intimate relationship of an unlikely couple: Léa de Lonval, a middle-aged former
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Criminal Confections

A Chocolate Whisperer Mystery, #1

by Colette London ...

Series Book 1 - A Chocolate Whisperer Mystery
Hayden Mundy Moore is an expert on everything chocolate, helping clients develop new products and revamp recipes until they're irresistible. But sometimes, a dash of murder finds its way into the mix...Hayden Mundy Moore has bushwhacked through African jungles and haggled in exotic markets to find the finest cacao beans and the most flavorful blends. It's thrilling work but rarely dangerous--until ... Read more

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Hayden Mundy Moore is an expert on everything chocolate, helping clients develop new products and revamp recipes until they're irresistible. But sometimes, a dash of murder finds its way into the mix...Hayden Mundy Moore has bushwhacked through African jungles and haggled in exotic markets to find the finest cacao beans and the most flavorful blends. It's thrilling work but rarely dangerous--until
... Read more
Claudine at School (Annotated)

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

by Colette, Orson Marrowick ...

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

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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
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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

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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
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

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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.
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Avaritia

Shades of Sin, Book 4

by Colette Rhodes ...

Narrated by Rachel Leblang, Will Thorne ...

Series Audiobook 4 - Shades of Sin
Unabridged

6 hours 45 min

If there's one thing Verity will consistently do, it's spontaneously make terrible decisions.Sometimes they work out well—so far, smuggling her rescue cat into the shadow realm has been a great success—but more often than not, she ends up with a bigger mess to clean up than she started with.If there's one thing Theon will consistently do, it's plot his brother's demise after losing his spot in the ... Read more

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If there's one thing Verity will consistently do, it's spontaneously make terrible decisions.Sometimes they work out well—so far, smuggling her rescue cat into the shadow realm has been a great success—but more often than not, she ends up with a bigger mess to clean up than she started with.If there's one thing Theon will consistently do, it's plot his brother's demise after losing his spot in the
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The Vagabond

by Colette ...

Translated by Frances Egan ...

Series series Oxford World's Classics
'Nothing is real except the dance, the light, the freedom, the music.' Colette's semi-autobiographical novel The Vagabond (1910) follows thirty-three-year-old Renée Néré as she embarks on a stage career after a divorce from philandering ex-husband, painter Adolphe Taillandy. Unlike the earlier Claudine series, which began as a collaboration between Colette and her first husband, Colette worked ... Read more

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'Nothing is real except the dance, the light, the freedom, the music.' Colette's semi-autobiographical novel The Vagabond (1910) follows thirty-three-year-old Renée Néré as she embarks on a stage career after a divorce from philandering ex-husband, painter Adolphe Taillandy. Unlike the earlier Claudine series, which began as a collaboration between Colette and her first husband, Colette worked
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