Colette

Born in 1873 in France, Colette was the author of many acclaimed novels noted for their intimate style. Other Colette titles from FSG include Gigi, Julie de Carneilhan, and Chance Acquaintances, The Complete Claudine, Chéri and The Last of Chéri, and The Complete Stories of Colette. She died in 1954.

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Cheri and The Last of Cheri [movie tie-in edition]

Colette; Translated from the French by Roger Senhouse; Introduction by Judith Thurman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Chéri is one of the most honest, sensual, and poignant breakup stories ever written. First published in 1920, it was instantly greeted by Marcel Proust and...

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My Mother's House and Sido

Colette; Translated from the Frence by Una Vicenzo Troubridge and Enid McLeod; With a New Introduction by Judith Thurman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

In My Mother's House and Sido, Colette plays fictional variations on the themes of childhood, family, and, above all, her mother. Vividly alive, fond of...

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Break of Day

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette; Translated from the French by Enid McLeod; With a New Introduction by Judith Thurman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Colette began writing Break of Day in her early fifties, at Saint-Tropez on the Côte d'Azur, where she had bought a small house after the breakup of her second...

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Gigi, Julie de Carneilhan, and Chance Acquaintances

Colette; With a New Introduction by Judith Thurman; Translated by Roger Senhouse and Patrick Leigh Femor
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Two volumes of Colette's most beloved works, with a new Introduction by Judith Thurman. Perhaps Colette's best-known work, Gigi is the story of a young girl...

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Cheri and The Last of Cheri

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette; Translated by Roger Senhouse; With a New Introduction by Judith Thurman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Two volumes of Colette's most beloved works, with a new Introduction by Judith Thurman. Chéri, together with The Last of Chéri, is a classic...

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The Vagabond

Colette; Introduction by Judith Thurman; Translated by Enid McLeod
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Thirty-three years-old and recently divorced, Renée Néré has begun a new life on her own, supporting herself as a music-hall artist....

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The Complete Claudine

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette; Introduction by Judith Thurman; Translated by Antonia White
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Colette, prodded by her first husband, Willy, began her writing career with Claudine at School, which catapulted the young author into instant, sensational...

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Flowers and Fruit

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Collected Stories of Colette

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette; Edited and with an Introduction by Robert Phelps; Translated by Matthew Ward, Antonia White, Anne-Marie Callimach, and others
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

The Collected Stories of Colette beings together in one volume for the first time in any language the comprehensive collection of short stories by the novelist...

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Belles Saisons

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette; Edited by Robert Phelps
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Although Colette was first and always a verbal artist, she was also a very original human being, an earthbound, androgynous, profoundly French female whose...

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Creatures Great and Small

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette; Translated by Enid MacLoed
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Creatures Great and Small consists of three books that were originally published separately and contain the imagined conversations that go on between Colette's...

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The Shackle

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

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Earthly Paradise

Robert Phelps; Herma Briffault (Translator)
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

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