The collected stories of Colette /

Colette, 1873-1954.

The collected stories of Colette / edited, and with an introduction, by Robert Phelps ; translated by Matthew Ward ... [et al.]. - New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, c1983. - xvi, 605 p. ; 24 cm.

The halt -- Arrival and rehearsal -- A bad morning -- The circus horse -- The workroom -- Matinee -- The starveling -- Love -- The hard worker -- After midnight -- "Lola" -- Moments of stress -- Journey's end -- "The strike, oh, Lord, the strike!" -- Bastienne's child -- The accompanist -- The cashier -- Nostalgia -- Clever dogs -- The child prodigy -- The misfit -- "La Fenice" -- "Gitanette" -- The victim -- The tenor -- The quick-change artist -- Florie -- Gribiche. Backstage at the music hall. On tour. Cheap-jacks. From the front. The other table -- The screen -- Clouk alone -- Clouk's fling -- Chéri -- The return -- The pearls -- Literature -- My goddaughter -- A hairdresser -- A masseuse -- My corset maker -- The saleswoman -- An interview -- A letter -- The Sémiramis bar -- "If I had a daughter..." -- Rites -- Newly shorn -- Grape harvest -- In the boudoir -- The "master" -- Morning glories -- What must we look like? -- The cure -- Sleepless nights -- Gray days -- The last fire -- A fable : the tendrils of the vine. Early stories. Clouk / Chéri. Dialogues for one voice. My friend Valentine. In the flower of age -- The rivals -- The respite -- The bitch -- The tender shoot -- Bygone spring -- October -- Armande -- The rendezvous -- The kepi -- The photographer's wife -- Bella-Vista -- April. Love. The hidden woman -- Dawn -- One evening -- The hand -- A dead end -- The fox -- The judge -- The omelette -- The other wife -- Monsieur Maurice -- The burglar -- The advice -- The murderer -- The portrait -- The landscape -- The half-crazy -- Secrets -- "Châ" -- The bracelet -- The find -- Mirror games -- Habit -- Alix's refusal -- The seamstress -- The watchman -- The hollow nut -- The patriarch -- The sick child -- The rainy moon -- Green sealing wax. Varieties of human nature.

100 stories dating from 1908 to 1945.

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Colette, 1873-1954 --Translations into English.


France--Social life and customs--Fiction.


Short stories.

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