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Name: The Collected Stories of Colette

Author: Colette
Year: 1958
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Genres/categories: Short Stories, Fiction, Classic
Culture: France

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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, wit and psychological acuity that made Colette unique.
About the author:
Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, 1873–1954) was a French author and woman of letters nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948; also known as a mime, actress, and journalist. Colette was most widely known for her 1944 novella "Gigi" (1944), which was the basis for the 1958 film and the 1973 stage production of the same name.

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