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"This guided tour of the erotic nether-world with which Colette was so intimately acquainted begins in the darkness and languor of a fashionable opium den, and continues as a series of unforgettable encounters with men and, especially, women whose lives have been improbably and yet permanently transfigured by the power of desire.
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Grave, character-led, prestige and contemplative.
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- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Colette
- First published
- 1933
- Pages
- 174
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Adelphi, Secker & Warburg
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- und, English
- ISBN
- 9780140032550
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Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette was born in Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, Yonne, in the Burgundy Region of France. In 1893 she married Henri Gauthier-Villars, a famous wit known as "Willy", who was 15 years her senior. Her first books, the Claudine series, were published under the pen name of her husband, "Willy". In 1906 she left her husband and lived for a time with the American writer and salonist Natalie Barney. The two had a short affair, and remained friends until Colette's death. She then started working in the music halls of Paris with Mathilde de Morny, the Marquise de Belbeuf, with whom she became romantically involved. In 1907, they performed together in a pantomime entitled Rêve d'Égypte a
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