| Description |
xvi, 605 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Early stories. Clouk / Chéri. Other table -- Screen -- Clouk alone -- Clouk's fling -- Chéri -- Rturn -- Pearls -- Dialogues for one voice. Literature -- My goddaughter -- Hairdresser -- Masseuse -- My corset maker -- Saleswoman -- Interview -- My friend Valentine. Letter -- Sémiramis bar -- "If I had a daughter..." -- Rites -- Newly shorn -- Grape harvest -- In the boudoir -- "Master" -- Morning glories -- What must we look like? -- Cure -- Sleepless nights -- Gray days -- Last fire -- Fable : the tendrils of the vine. |
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Backstage at the music hall. On tour. Halt -- Arrival and rehearsal -- Bad morning -- Circus horse -- Workroom -- Matinee -- Starveling -- Love -- Hard worker -- After midnight -- "Lola" -- Moments of stress -- Journey's end -- "Strike, oh, Lord, the strike!" -- Bastienne's child -- Cheap-jacks. Accompanist -- Cashier -- Nostalgia -- Clever dogs -- Child prodigy -- Misfit -- From the front. "La Fenice" -- "Gitanette" -- Victim -- Tenor -- TQuick-change artist -- Florie -- Gribiche. |
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Varieties of human nature. Hidden woman -- Dawn -- One evening -- Hand -- Dead end -- Fox -- TJudge -- Omelette -- Other wife -- Monsieur Maurice -- Burglar -- Advice -- Murderer -- Portrait -- Landscape -- Half-crazy -- Secrets -- "Châ" -- Bracelet -- Find -- Mirror games -- Habit -- Alix's refusal -- Seamstress -- Watchman -- Hollow nut -- Patriarch -- Sick child -- Rainy moon -- Green sealing wax. |
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Love. In the flower of age -- Rivals -- Respite -- Bitch -- Tender shoot -- Bygone spring -- October -- Armande -- Rendezvous -- Kepi -- Photographer's wife -- Bella-Vista -- April. |
| Summary |
100 stories dating from 1908 to 1945. |
| Subject |
Colette, 1873-1954 -- Translations into English.
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France -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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Short stories.
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| Added Author |
Phelps, Robert, 1922-1989
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| Added Title |
Works. Selections. English. 1983
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| ISBN |
0374126291: $19.95 |
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9780374126292 |
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0374518653 |
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9780374518653 |
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