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Claudine And Annie by Colette

THE STORIES THAT INSPIRED THE FILM COLETTE, out Jan 2019.

In this final novel in Colette's famous series it is Claudine's friend Annie who tells the story in the form of a private diary.

Claudine is happily settled with her adored husband Renaud, spending her time giving wide and worldly advice to despairing Annie, whose life with the boring and dominating Alain is set to dramatically change. With the help of Claudine, Annie takes steps to empower her own life, a life away from her husband.

Though Colette's intoxicating series of novels emerges a portrait of Claudine an intelligent, modern woman whose life is always honest, passionate and inspiring.

Claudine And Annie Reviews

She has been compared to a 20th-century female Montaigne, and it is true that her books offer a manual on how to live fearlessly and joyfully - greedily alive to every sensation and experience * Guardian *
This most French of all French writers . . . 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 -- New York Times
Everything that Colette touched became human -- The Times
A perfectionist in her every word -- Spectator
Her sensual prose style made her one of the great writers of twentieth-century France - -- New York Times Book Review

About Colette

Colette, the creator of Claudine, Cheri and Gigi, and one of France's outstanding writers, had a long, varied and active life. She was born in Burgundy on 1873 into a home overflowing with dogs, cats and children, and educated at the local village school. At the age of twenty she moved to Paris with her first husband, the notorious writer and critic Henry Gauthiers-Viller (Willy). By locking her in her room, Willy forced Collette to write her first novels (the Claudine sequence), which he published under his name. They were an instant success. Colettte left Willy in 1906 and worked in music-halls as an actor and dancer. She had a love affair with Napoleon's niece, married twice more, had a baby at 40 and at 47. Her writing, which included novels, portraits, essays and a large body of autobiographical prose, was admired by Proust and Gide. She was the first woman President of the Academie Goncourt, and when she died, aged 81, she was given a state funeral and buried in Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.

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GOR001904371

ISBN 13

9780099422488

ISBN 10

0099422484

Title

Claudine And Annie by Colette

Author

Colette

Series

Claudine

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Vintage Publishing

Year published

20010601

Number of pages

160

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