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  • Claudine in Paris (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A Belle Époque Coming-of-Age Novel of Parisian Sophistication, Desire, and Female Self-Discovery

    by Colette, Orson Marrowick ...
    Translated by e-artnow ...
    Claudine in Paris, the second novel in Colette's celebrated Claudine sequence, transports its sharp-eyed heroine from the provincial schoolroom of Montigny to the more ambiguous social and erotic terrain of the capital. Written in a supple, intimate first-person style, the novel blends diary-like immediacy with ironic social observation, tracing Claudine's convalescence, family entanglements, and ... Read more

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  • The Vagabond (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. The Quest of Female Independence and Self-Discovery in Early 20th Century Parisian Bohemia

    by Colette, Orson Marrowick ...
    Translated by e-artnow ...
    Colette's The Vagabond is a finely observed novel of artistic independence, desire, and self-possession, centered on Renée Néré, a divorced music-hall performer who must choose between romantic security and the precarious freedom of the stage. Written in a supple, sensuous prose that mingles irony with lyrical precision, the book belongs to the early twentieth-century French tradition of ... Read more

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    La Vagabonde

    by Colette ...
    Narrated by Johanna Ward ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 23 min

    Largely autobiographical, La Vagabonde recalls the author’s own years as a dance-hall performer in turn-of-the-century Paris. Colette takes the listener backstage and into the demimonde of Renée Néré, an aging dancer, mime, and failed writer. In a sultry, passionate, and intelligent voice, Renée narrates the story of her romance with an admirer named Maxime. Her struggle is that of a woman who ... Read more

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  • Gigi (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Belle Époque Paris, Courtesan Training, and a Young Woman's Awakening to Autonomy

    by Colette, Orson Marrowick ...
    Translated by e-artnow ...
    Colette's Gigi is a finely poised novella of Belle Époque Paris, where manners, money, and erotic commerce are rendered with crystalline irony. Its young heroine is being educated by her grandmother and great-aunt for the demi-monde, yet her candor unsettles the elegant machinery of arranged pleasure. Written in Colette's supple, exact prose, the book belongs to the French tradition of social ... Read more

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  • A Really Bad Idea

    by Jeannine Colette ...
    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

    $1.36 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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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  • 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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  • Barks and Purrs

    ( Edition intégrale ) illustrated

    by Colette ...
    Series series Works of Colette
    Barks and Purrs is a collection of seven episodes in the lives of Toby-Dog, a French Bulldog, and Kiki-the-Demure, a Maltese cat, living in a comfortable household. The episodes cover a hot afternoon, a train ride, and what happened when dinner was late or their mistress was ill. We hear about the first fire in autumn, a heavy storm, and about a visitor in the household.Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette ... Read more

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  • The Semi-Sweet Hereafter

    A Chocolate Whisperer Mystery, #3

    by Colette London ...
    Series Book 3 - A Chocolate Whisperer Mystery
    As an authority on all things chocolate, Hayden Mundy Moore is traveling across the pond to lend her expertise to the owner of a posh London chocolaterie-pâtisserie. From coconut truffles to chocolate flapjacks, Hayden's mouthwatering creations quickly impress her client. But her knowledge doesn't end there. The detective constable is taken by surprise when she identifies an exotic murder weapon: ... Read more

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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

    $31.19 CAD

  • 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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  • Chéri (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A Sensual Exploration of Love and Identity During the Belle Époque

    by Colette, Orson Marrowick ...
    Translated by e-artnow ...
    First published in 1920, Chéri is one of Colette's most incisive explorations of desire, aging, and social performance in the world of Belle Époque and postwar Paris. The novel follows Léa, a cultivated courtesan nearing fifty, and her beautiful young lover Chéri, whose marriage exposes the fragility beneath their seemingly elegant detachment. Written in Colette's famously exact, sensuous prose, ... Read more

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