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Gigi

Colette

A Parisian girl trained for life as a courtesan unsettles family expectations, as Colette examines love within a world governed by social convention.

Literary fiction

My Mother's House and Sido

Colette

Colette returns to her Burgundy childhood through intimate autobiographical portraits, finding the character of a family in the details of early life.

Memoir

The Complete Claudine

Colette

Four semi-autobiographical novels follow Claudine through the Paris of the early twentieth century, exploring the pleasures and complications of growing independence.

Memoir

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