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The collected stories of Colette / edited, and with an introduction, by Robert Phelps ; translated by Matthew Ward ... [et al.].

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, c1983.Description: xvi, 605 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0374126291 :
  • 0374518653
  • 9780374126292
  • 9780374518653
Uniform titles:
  • Selections. English. 1983
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Backstage at the music hall. On tour. 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 -- Cheap-jacks. The accompanist -- The cashier -- Nostalgia -- Clever dogs -- The child prodigy -- The misfit -- From the front. "La Fenice" -- "Gitanette" -- The victim -- The tenor -- The quick-change artist -- Florie -- Gribiche.
Early stories. Clouk / Chéri. The other table -- The screen -- Clouk alone -- Clouk's fling -- Chéri -- The return -- The pearls -- Dialogues for one voice. Literature -- My goddaughter -- A hairdresser -- A masseuse -- My corset maker -- The saleswoman -- An interview -- My friend Valentine. 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.
Love. 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.
Varieties of human nature. 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.
Summary: 100 stories dating from 1908 to 1945.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction Colette On hold 33111006451245 1
Total holds: 1

Backstage at the music hall. On tour. 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 -- Cheap-jacks. The accompanist -- The cashier -- Nostalgia -- Clever dogs -- The child prodigy -- The misfit -- From the front. "La Fenice" -- "Gitanette" -- The victim -- The tenor -- The quick-change artist -- Florie -- Gribiche.

Early stories. Clouk / Chéri. The other table -- The screen -- Clouk alone -- Clouk's fling -- Chéri -- The return -- The pearls -- Dialogues for one voice. Literature -- My goddaughter -- A hairdresser -- A masseuse -- My corset maker -- The saleswoman -- An interview -- My friend Valentine. 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.

Love. 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.

Varieties of human nature. 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.

100 stories dating from 1908 to 1945.

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