The Pure and the Impure - Paperback
by Colette
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Availability:In StockContributor:Colette, Judith Thurman (Introduction by), Herma Briffault (Translator)Publish date:2000-09-30Pages:208
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9780940322486ISBN-10:094032248XUPC:9780940322486Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Erotica, LGBTQ+, HistoricalBook Topic:LGBTQ+, LesbianSize:8.00 x 5.01 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4696Product ID:SC6D2GCP3S
The Pure and the Impure
Colette herself considered The Pure and the Impure her best book, "the nearest I shall ever come to writing an autobiography." This guided tour of the erotic netherworld with which Colette was so intimately acquainted begins in the darkness and languor of a fashionable opium den. It continues as a series of unforgettable encounters with men and, especially, women whose lives have been improbably...
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9780940322486ISBN-10:094032248XUPC:9780940322486Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Erotica, LGBTQ+, HistoricalBook Topic:LGBTQ+, LesbianSize:8.00 x 5.01 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4696Product ID:SC6D2GCP3S
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette [1873-1954], was born in the village of Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, where she led an idyllic childhood. At the age of twenty, she married Henri Gauthier-Villars, known as Willy, a Parisian man of letters under whose name she published the Claudine novels. Separated from Willy in 1905, Colette supported herself as an actress before establishing her own reputation as a...
Publisher: New York Review of Books
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Colette, Judith Thurman (Introduction by), Herma Briffault (Translator)
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