Retreat from Love

Colette Gauthier-Villars

Literature & Fiction

HAMLYN PBS.

<p>Cheri and The Last Of Cheri involve a tragic/comic love affair.  Colette (1873-1954) is the pseudonym for Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette.  She is best known in English speaking countries for her novel Gigi, which was later the source for the  Lerner &amp; Loewe musical film and stage musical.  Cheri and The Last Of Cheri are two novels concerning a love affair between a successful but aging courtesan, Léa de Lonval, and her spoiled young lover called Chéri.  The intensity of their feelings is revealed when Chéri marries eighteen-year-old Marie-Laure.</p>

The Last of Cheri

Contemporary

ARMADILL

<p>Set in pre-war Paris, Julie de Carneilhan tells of the complex relationship between proud but impoverished Julie and her former husband, the Comte d'Espivant, who has remarried a wealth widow. Julie de Carneilhan was the last full-length novel Colette was to write as was 'as close a reckoning with the elements of her second marriage as she ever allowed herself.'In Chance Acquaintances Colette visits a health resort accompanied only by her cat. While there, she befriends the handsome Gerard Haume and his invalid wife Antoinette, and is unwittingly caught up in the mysterious and disturbing events which befall them.Varying widely in mood and treatment, these two short novels demonstrate the versatility and sensitivity of Colette's writing</p>

Julie De Carneilhan

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

Chance Acquaintances

Penguin Books, Ltd.

The Innocent Libertine

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.

The Pure and the Impure (Twentieth Century Classics)

My Mother's House (New Windmills)

Heinemann Educational Publishers

The Vagabond

Thirty-three years-old and recently divorced, Renée Néré has begun a new life on her own, supporting herself as a music-hall artist. Maxime, a rich and idle bachelor, intrudes on her independent existence and offers his love and the comforts of marriage. A provincial tour puts distance between them and enables Renée, in a moving series of leters and meditations, to resolve alone the struggle between her need to be loved and her need to have a life and work of her own.

British & Irish

Secker Warburg

Gigi (Vintage Heroines)

Vintage Classics

THAT KIND OF WOMAN

GERTRUDE STEIN

ANAÏS NIN

JEAN RHYS

H.D.

Djuna Barnes

Janet Flanner

Edith, Wharton

Virginia, Woolf

VARIOUS

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