The Pure and the Impure by Colette

The Pure and the Impure by Colette

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 and yet permanently transfigured by the strange power of desire. Lucid and lyrical, The Pure and the Impure stands out as one of modern literature's subtlest reckonings not only with the varieties of sexual experience, but with the always unlikely nature of love.

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ISBN 13	9780140089080
ISBN 10	014008908X
Title	The Pure and the Impure
Author	Colette
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	1971-05-01
Number of pages	144
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