The Collected Stories of Colette
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"Colette is a kind of corsetiere of love. This most French of all French writers tells us how love sometimes binds and keeps a woman from breathing freely or how it may shape and support her and help her to be beautiful . . . One thinks of her as the female voice of Paris . . . It's as if all the house fronts of Paris were cut away and we could see men and women talking, dressing, brooding, loving."--Anatole Broyard, The New York Times
"This large collection of her stories allows us to share her exhilaration and to sample the pleasure of her prose . . . no other woman seems to have had as much lived experience to draw upon or as much sexual sophistication . . . The voice of worldly feminine wisdom runs through her stories."--Phyllis Rose, The New York Times Book Review
"Like a table spread with the fruit and wine she celebrated in her books: 'Late-ripening cherries, rosy peaches, thin-skinned Marseilles figs, misty hot-house grapes and champagne shuddering in carafes of heavy crystal.' A sumptuous display."--Patricia Blake, Time
The Collected Stories of Colette,Colette,Robert G. Phelps,Matthew Ward,Antonia White,Farrar, Straus and Giroux,0374518653,1873-1954,Colette,,Fiction,France,General,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Short Stories (Anthologies),Short stories,Social life and customs,Translations into English,Fiction / Literary
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