Largely autobiographical, La Vagabonde recalls the author’s own years as a dance-hall performer in turn-of-the-century Paris. Colette takes the listener backstage and into the demimonde of Renée Néré, an aging dancer, mime, and failed writer. In a sultry, passionate, and intelligent voice, Renée narrates the story of her romance with an admirer named Maxime. Her struggle is that of a woman who must choose between freedom and love.

Chéri: spoiled, petulant, beautiful, aged twenty-five. Léa: magnificent, brilliant, remorseless, aged forty-nine. They are in love, but their relationship exists beyond the bounds of social acceptability and must one day come to an end, no matter the cost.A succ**ès de scandale on publication for its depiction of transgressive love, Colette’s celebrated novella is also a profound and compelling exploration of the passage of time, the body and ageing, mirrors, self-percepti...

Claudine at School follows a sardonic fifteen‑year‑old through her final year in a provincial Burgundian girls' school, narrated as a pungent diary whose quicksilver tones shift from prank to sensual reverie. Claudine anatomizes classroom hypocrisies—above all the charged liaison between the headmistress and her assistant—while registering first desires. Colette's lapidary metaphors and botanical precision place the book within fin‑de‑siècle satire of the Third Republic's secular pedagogy ...

Let’s be clear. We are all equal under the law. However, even in these more modern times that is not an absolute and still remains a distant ambition for many.In the days when Britain ruled the waves and bestrode the world as its policeman and plunderer in chief it also subjugated half of its own people to second class status. Women were chattel and property. There were some exceptions based on wealth and birthright but for the overwhelming majority your lot was to fall in with the...

Barks and Purrs is a collection of seven episodes in the lives of Toby-Dog, a French Bulldog, and Kiki-the-Demure, a Maltese cat, living in a comfortable household. The episodes cover a hot afternoon, a train ride, and what happened when dinner was late or their mistress was ill. We hear about the first fire in autumn, a heavy storm, and about a visitor in the household.Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette-Willy was throughout her life a controversial French novelist. She published around 50 ...

For Kore's entire life, her mother only ever wanted two things from her:Swear an oath of virginity (to protect her from marriage)Never show the world how much power she really possessed (to protect her from marriage)Despite Demeter’s attempts to keep Kore as far away from Olympus and its capricious gods who might want her for their own, there was nothing in this world or any other that could have kept Kore hidden from Hades.A...

The final adventure of Miss Jane Clemons. Will Jane be reunited with her beloved Zaren, or will she choose to stay with Lord Akenov?

Miraculous is a compelling memoir about tragedy, grief, and disaster that unfolds with a heavenly variation. Colette, the eldest sibling who attends a university in Australia, is reeling from the excitement of her first day, on the 13th of February 2007, when in broad daylight, is fatally struck by a car. The victim was declared brain dead, sustained traumatic brain injuries, and was in critical condition after falling into a coma. Will she ever awake or remain vegetative or non-responsive...

“Nothing I’ve read has cut to the heart of the ’00s like Y2K.” — BustlePerfect for fans of Jia Tolentino and Chuck Klosterman, Y2K is a delightfully nostalgic and bitingly told exploration of pop culture history about how the early 2000s forever changed us and the world we live in.THE EARLY 2000s conjures images of inflatable furniture, flip phones, and low-rise jeans. It was a new millennium and ...

They say politics makes strange bedfellows...Elated to secure her first paid political staff position, Bijal Rao is eager to focus her efforts on the election of her candidate to U.S. Congress. However, Bijal’s first unforeseen obstacle is her profound and unexpected attraction to their opponentÑincumbent Congresswoman Colleen O’BannonÑwho is outspoken, charismatic, and openly lesbian.An even greater hurdle is the subterfuge and pretense that prevades the climate in Washing...

Jane is back!The seventh installment in the bestselling erotic serial The Erotic Adventures of Jane in the Jungle picks up where Enslaved (Part 6) leaves off.Jane continues to be the object of obsession of the Queen of Amazonia, enslaved by her with no opportunity for escape. When her mistress's concubine Akenov makes an unscheduled appearance, Jane is caught up in a whirlwind of eroticism.And when her beloved Zaren makes an appear...

You may have been wondering for years what has been blocking you from making the quantum leap in your dream business, or realizing the life of freedom and fulfillment you are really after. There is a good chance that you are not lazy or unlucky. The culprit may be your blueprint. If your blueprint is preparing all your decisions, and decisions are at the core of success, then it is logical to assume that your blueprint about money, success, and abundance, has been sabotaging the fulfilment...