Collected Stories of Colette » (Reprint)

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

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 known worldwide as Colette, and now acknowledged, with Proust, as the most original French narrative writer of the first half of our century. of the one hundred stories gathered here, thirty-one appear for the first time in English and another twenty-nine have been newly translated for this volume.

Introduction by Robert Phelps

A Note on the Text

Translator's Acknowledgments

PART I: Early Stories

CLOUK/CHÉRI The Other Table The Screen Clouk Alone Clouk's Fling Chéri The Return The Pearls

DIALOGUES FOR ONE VOICE Literature My Goddaughter A Hairdresser A Masseuse My Corset Maker The Saleswoman An Interview

MY FRIEND VALENTINE A Letter The Sémiramis Bar

"If I had a Daughter . . ."

Rites Newly Shorn Grape Harvest In the Boudoir The "Master"

Morning Glories What Must We Look Like?

The Cure Sleepless Nights Gray Days The Last Fire A Fable: The Tendrils of the Vine

PART II: Backstage at the Music Hall

ON TOUR The Halt Arrival and Rehearsal A Bad Morning The Circus Horse The Workroom Matinee The Starveling Love The Hard Worker After Midnight

"Lola"

Moments of Stress Journey's End

"The Strike, Oh, Lord, the Strike!"

Bastienne's Child

CHEAP-JACKS The Accompanist The Cashier Nostalgia Clever Dogs

0The Child Prodigy

The Misfit

FROM THE FRONT

"La Fenice"

"Gitanette "

The Victim The Tenor The Quick-Change Artist Florie Gribiche

PART III: Varieties of Human Nature

The Hidden Woman Dawn One Evening The Hand A Dead End The Fox The Judge The Omelette The Other Wife Monsieur Maurice The Burglar The Advice The Murderer The Portrait The Landscape The Half-Crazy Secrets

"Châ"

The Bracelet The Find Mirror Games Habit Alix's Refusal The Seamstress The Watchman The Hollow Nut The Patriarch The Sick Child The Rainy Moon Green Sealing Wax

PART IV: Love

In the Flower of Age The Rivals The Respite The Bitch The Tender Shoot Bygone Spring October Armande The Rendezvous The Kepi The Photographers Wife Bella-Vista April