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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459884003321

Autore

Colette <1873-1954, >

Titolo

Shipwrecked on a traffic island : and other previously untranslated gems / / Colette ; translated by Zack Rogow and Renée Morel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, New York : , : Excelsior Editions, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4384-5445-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (210 p.)

Collana

Excelsior Editions

Disciplina

848/.91209

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Stories Imagined and Real""; ""Conversation in the Metro""; ""Divine""; ""The Woman Who Sings""; ""Jealousy""; ""By the Bay of Somme""; ""II""; ""Makeup""; ""The Dancer�s Song""; ""Loves""; ""The Mirror""; ""Gone Fishin�""; ""Masked Ball on the Riviera: Cyclamen and Buttercup, or the Costume Ball of the Feet""; ""Shipwrecked on a Traffic Island""; ""Colette�s Advice Column""; ""From Denise in Despair""; ""Colette�s Response""; ""From A Tormented Heart""; ""Colette�s Response""; ""From Minerva""; ""Colette�s Response:""

""Colette Speaks to Americans""""Parisians Go on Vacation�To Paris""; ""The Writing Life""; ""Ways of Writing""; ""Letter to My Daughter""; ""The Young Poet""; ""Fashions""; ""Why I�ve Never Written a Children�s Book""; ""Children�s Books""; ""Scribes of the Palais-Royal""; ""On Growing Older""; ""Colette�s Journalism""; ""Tinkerers""; ""The Discovery""; ""Poverty Exists Everywhere""; ""Neighbors""; ""The Fake Pearl""; ""Gold""; ""Laziness""; ""With Love""; ""The Silence of Small Children""; ""Colette on Her Life""; ""Magic""; ""“Just a little bit farther . . .�""

""Movies, Theater, and Vaudeville""""Why I Love Bette Davis""; ""From Both Sides of the Curtain""; ""A Distinguished Connoisseur""; ""French Wine, Perfume, and Dolls""; ""The Wines of France""; ""Fragrances""; ""Dolls""