Colette





Colette

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born
January 28, 1873 in Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, Yonne, Burgundy, France

died
August 03, 1954

gender
female

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About this author

Colette was the pen name of the French novelist Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette. She is best known, at least in the English-speaking world, for her novel Gigi, which provided the plot for a Lerner & Loewe musical film and stage musical.


Average rating: 3.88 · 6,277 ratings · 556 reviews · 131 distinct works
Cheri & The Last of Cheri
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3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 1,285 ratings — published 1920 — 18 editions
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The Vagabond
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3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 747 ratings — published 1910 — 29 editions
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The Complete Claudine: Clau...
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Gigi & The Cat
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 627 ratings — published 1944 — 7 editions
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The Collected Stories
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4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 441 ratings — published 1983 — 7 editions
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The Pure and the Impure
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3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 381 ratings — published 1967 — 13 editions
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My Mother's House & Sido
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4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 275 ratings — published 1966 — 8 editions
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Break of Day
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3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 170 ratings — published 1928 — 10 editions
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The Ripening Seed
3.49 of 5 stars 3.49 avg rating — 299 ratings — published 1923 — 19 editions
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Chéri
3.63 of 5 stars 3.63 avg rating — 249 ratings — published 1920 — 43 editions
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Chéri (2 books)
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Claudine (4 books)
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4.0264367816091955 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 870 ratings
Colette, Tome 2 Oeuvres, Tome III Oeuvres, Tome IV
Colette - Bibliothèque de la Pléiade (4 books)
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“It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses. ”
Colette

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
Colette

“Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."

(Casual Chance, 1964)”
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