Colette
Born
in Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, Yonne, Burgundy, France
January 28, 1873
Died
August 03, 1954
Genre
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Chéri
by
133 editions
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published
1920
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The Vagabond
by
81 editions
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published
1910
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Cheri and The Last of Cheri
by
45 editions
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published
1926
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The Ripening Seed
73 editions
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published
1923
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Gigi / The Cat
18 editions
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published
1944
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Claudine at School
53 editions
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published
1900
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The Pure and the Impure
by
32 editions
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published
1932
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Gigi
47 editions
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published
1942
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The Complete Claudine
by
17 editions
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published
1903
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The Collected Stories
by
13 editions
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published
1958
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“I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.”
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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. ”
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Polls
December 2016 New School Classic Poll
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling, 320 pgs, 1997
White Fang by Jack London, 252 pages, 1906
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt, 432 pgs, 1995
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier, 352 pgs, 1951
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust, 468 pgs, 1913
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks, 483 pgs, 1993
The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas, 176 pgs, 1960
Queer by William S. Burroughs, 160 pgs, 1985
Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories by Flannery O'Connor, 269 pgs, 1965
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford, 368 pgs, 1915
The Vagabond by Colette, 252 pgs, 1910
Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih, 176 pgs, 1966
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