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Colette


Born
in Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, Yonne, Burgundy, France
January 28, 1873

Died
August 03, 1954

Genre
Literature & Fiction


Colette was the pen name of the French novelist and actress Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette. She is best known, at least in the English-speaking world, for her novella Gigi, which provided the plot for a famous Lerner & Loewe musical film and stage musical. She started her writing career penning the influential Claudine novels of books. The novel Chéri is often cited as her masterpiece.

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Average rating: 3.71 · 47,062 ratings · 4,919 reviews · 821 distinct works • Similar authors
Chéri
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3.67 avg rating — 6,100 ratings — published 1920 — 46 editions
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The Vagabond
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3.92 avg rating — 4,105 ratings — published 1910 — 2 editions
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Cheri and The Last of Cheri
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3.89 avg rating — 3,753 ratings — published 1926 — 101 editions
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Le blé en herbe
3.43 avg rating — 3,793 ratings — published 1923 — 2 editions
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Claudine at School
3.72 avg rating — 2,796 ratings — published 1900 — 33 editions
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Gigi and The Cat
3.63 avg rating — 2,740 ratings — published 1944 — 27 editions
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Gigi
3.63 avg rating — 2,385 ratings — published 1942 — 5 editions
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The Pure and the Impure
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3.59 avg rating — 2,321 ratings — published 1932
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The Complete Claudine
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4.17 avg rating — 1,660 ratings — published 1903 — 36 editions
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La Chatte
3.46 avg rating — 1,819 ratings — published 1933 — 97 editions
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Series by Colette

Chéri The Last of Cheri
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3.74 avg rating — 10,581 ratings

Claudine at School Claudine in Paris Claudine Married Claudine and Annie Retreat from Love
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3.83 avg rating — 7,150 ratings

Oeuvres, Tome I Colette, tome 2 Oeuvres, Tome III Oeuvres, Tome IV
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4.68 avg rating — 31 ratings

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“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
― Colette
tags: enthusiasm, foolishness, silliness, wisdom
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“I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.”
― Colette
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“It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses. ”
― Colette
tags: collapse, curiosity, flowers, friendly, friends, grief, letter, love, smile, tears
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Polls

January 2017 New School Classic Poll

 
  47 votes, 19.3%

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk - 218 pgs, 1996
 
  38 votes, 15.6%

 
  34 votes, 13.9%

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair - 412 pgs, 1905
 
  25 votes, 10.2%

Ross Poldark by Winston Graham - 400 pgs, 1945
 
  17 votes, 7.0%

Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini, 236 pgs, 1922
 
  15 votes, 6.1%

 
  15 votes, 6.1%

Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich, 367 pgs, 1984
 
  12 votes, 4.9%

Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson - 240 pgs, 1919
 
  10 votes, 4.1%

The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati, 198 pgs, 1940
 
  8 votes, 3.3%

 
  7 votes, 2.9%

 
  6 votes, 2.5%

The Vagabond by Colette - 252 pgs, 1910
 
  6 votes, 2.5%

Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout, 285 pgs, 1934
 
  4 votes, 1.6%

244 total votes
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