Retreat from Love

Colette Gauthier-Villars

Literature & Fiction

HAMLYN PBS.

<p>Set in pre-war Paris, Julie de Carneilhan tells of the complex relationship between proud but impoverished Julie and her former husband, the Comte d'Espivant, who has remarried a wealth widow. Julie de Carneilhan was the last full-length novel Colette was to write as was 'as close a reckoning with the elements of her second marriage as she ever allowed herself.'In Chance Acquaintances Colette visits a health resort accompanied only by her cat. While there, she befriends the handsome Gerard Haume and his invalid wife Antoinette, and is unwittingly caught up in the mysterious and disturbing events which befall them.Varying widely in mood and treatment, these two short novels demonstrate the versatility and sensitivity of Colette's writing</p>

Julie De Carneilhan

Contemporary

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

Chance Acquaintances

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Colette herself considered The Pure and the Impure her best book, "the nearest I shall ever come to writing an autobiography." This guided tour of the erotic netherworld with which Colette was so intimately acquainted begins in the darkness and languor of a fashionable opium den. It continues as a series of unforgettable encounters with men and, especially, women whose lives have been improbably and yet permanently transfigured by the strange power of desire. Lucid and lyrical, The Pure and the Impure stands out as one of modern literature's subtlest reckonings not only with the varieties of sexual experience, but with the always unlikely nature of love.

The Pure and the Impure (Twentieth Century Classics)

The Vagabond

Thirty-three years-old and recently divorced, Renée Néré has begun a new life on her own, supporting herself as a music-hall artist. Maxime, a rich and idle bachelor, intrudes on her independent existence and offers his love and the comforts of marriage. A provincial tour puts distance between them and enables Renée, in a moving series of leters and meditations, to resolve alone the struggle between her need to be loved and her need to have a life and work of her own.

British & Irish

Secker Warburg

THAT KIND OF WOMAN

Gertrude Stein

ANAÏS NIN

JEAN RHYS

H.D.

Djuna Barnes

Janet Flanner

Edith, Wharton

Virginia, Woolf

VARIOUS

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

<p>There are thirty stories, spanning nearly a century (from 1896–1984). Twelve are taken from the twelve volumes of stories we have published over the last few years; nine were previously published in our quarterly (later biannually) magazine during the last decade; and nine have been selected especially for this collection. They are presented in the order they were written. A quarter are by North American women writers.\nIn dull brown / Evelyn Sharp (1896) -- The bedquilt / Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1906) -- Her first ball / Katherine Mansfield (1921) -- The other wife / Colette (1924) -- The casualty list / Winifred Holtby (1932) -- Thunder shower / Malachi Whitaker (1933) -- The exile / Joanna Cannan (1939) -- Safety zone / Dorothy van Doren (1939) -- After tea / Dorothy Whipple (1941) -- Monsieur Rose / Irène Nèmirovsky (1941) -- Going home / Sally Benson (1942) -- Frowning Caryatid / Lettice Cooper (1942) -- Miss Anstruther's letters / Rose Macaulay (1942) -- The house at hove / Diana Gardner (1944) -- Year of decision / Mollie Panter-Downes (1944) -- We have to sit opposite / Ethel Wilson (1945) -- The little willow / Frances Towers (1947) -- Monkey-barges / Emma Smith (1947) -- The blessing that must be earned / Freda Aykroyd (1947) -- The professor's daughter / Margaret Bonham (1948) -- The prisoner / Elizabeth Berridge (1948) -- Beside the still waters / Mollie-Panter Downes (1948) -- To open a door / Kathleen Warren (1951) -- The proof / Mary Rickwood (1954) -- The green heart / Jane McClure (1955) -- No laughing matter / Diana Athill (1961) -- Sunday morning / Dorothy Whipple (1961) -- For good / Alice Adams (1977) -- Accidents / Carol Shields (1983) -- Gilbert / Rosamunde Pilcher (1984).</p>

The Second Persephone Book of Short Stories

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Irène Némirovsky

Dorothy Whipple

ROSE MACAULAY

Mollie Panter-Downes

Sally Benson

Katherine Mansfield

Winifred Holtby

Lettice, Cooper

Malachi WHITAKER

Evelyn Sharp

Joanna Cannan

Dorothy Van Doren

Diana Gardner

Short Stories & Anthologies

Persephone Books Ltd.

Claudine à l'école

MAGNARD

Le blé en herbe

Le Grand livre du mois

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