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Could anyone provide a list of what is found in this book? I have read Colette's original work 'Paradis terrestre' in French and I would like to show it to a friend in English. This book seems to be the main collection of her non-fiction in English, but I am hoping to find out exactly which parts of the original 'Earthly Paradise' have been translated and appear here. Thanks!

Moira Taylor Robert Phelps' Foreword to the Penguin edition is short describes this collection as her 'autobiographical prose', comprising portraits, essays, memo…more Robert Phelps' Foreword to the Penguin edition is short describes this collection as her 'autobiographical prose', comprising portraits, essays, memoirs, chronicles. These are selections from her memoirs, notebooks and letters, describing her life story. I cannot tell you more, having never seen the original in French. It covers Childhood-Family-Early Signs; Marriage, Literary Apprenticeship, Masks; Music Halls, Motherhood, World War I; Work, Appetites, La Grande Colette; The Pure and the Impure; Another War, Old Age, The Blue Lantern. Hope that helps. M(less)

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I read this about 35 years ago, and I still recall it vividly. In fact, I would say, considering its nonfiction and that I read it in translation, it has to be on my Top Ten list of all-time great books. Just marvelous writing! Anyone else sold on this book?

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