Claudine And Annie

Claudine And Annie
Author: Colette
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2011-04-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1446467465

THE STORIES THAT INSPIRED THE FILM COLETTE, out Jan 2019. In this final novel in Colette's famous series it is Claudine's friend Annie who tells the story in the form of a private diary. Claudine is happily settled with her adored husband Renaud, spending her time giving wide and worldly advice to despairing Annie, whose life with the boring and dominating Alain is set to dramatically change. With the help of Claudine, Annie takes steps to empower her own life, a life away from her husband. Though Colette's intoxicating series of novels emerges a portrait of Claudine an intelligent, modern woman whose life is always honest, passionate and inspiring.

The Complete Claudine

The Complete Claudine
Author: Colette
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 660
Release: 2001-09-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780374528034

The stories that inspired the film Colette, directed by Wash Westmoreland and starring Keira Knightley. Colette, prodded by her first husband, Willy, began her writing career with Claudine at School, which catapulted the young author into instant, sensational success. Among the most autobiographical of Colette's works, these four novels are dominated by the child-woman Claudine, whose strength, humor, and zest for living make her seem almost a symbol for the life force. Janet Flanner described these books as "amazing writing on the almost girlish search for the absolute of happiness in physical love . . . recorded by a literary brain always wide awake on the pillow."

The Claudine Novels

The Claudine Novels
Author: Colette
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Total Pages: 566
Release: 1987
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Claudine fills a diary with her experiences growing up in France.

The Provocative Colette

The Provocative Colette
Author: Annie Goetzinger
Publisher: NBM
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2018-08-01
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1681121727

Movie "Colette" coming in September starring Keira Knightley! From her marriage at the age of 20, until her divorce, this snapshot of Colette's life focuses on her formative years. Incredibly complex, powerfully determined, truly gifted, Colette challenged herself to reinvent her life and assert herself as a free woman. In her day, her behavior scandalized and vexed the establishment. But in the end, she helped to free women in their thinking and became member and then president of France's prestigious Académie Goncourt, among many other honors as one of France's preeminent authors. For mature readers.

Naughty Claudine's Christmas

Naughty Claudine's Christmas
Author: Patrick Jennings
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2017
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101937343

Because Claudine thinks Santa is rude, she tries to keep him from coming down her chimney by getting on his naughty list.

Retreat from Love

Retreat from Love
Author: Colette
Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004
Genre: French fiction
ISBN: 9780720612271

One of the best of the celebrated Claudine novels, this installment follows the sexual and emotional machinations of three upper-class youths in a remote farmhouse, where the protagonist of the series awaits her husband Renaud's return from a Swiss sanatorium. She distracts herself by encouraging her young friend Annie to recount salacious episodes from her love life. When Renaud's homosexual son Marcel arrives, Claudine sets about matchmaking, a fiasco she bitterly regrets. With Renaud's death, Claudine's ennui is transmuted into resigned suffering, but she gradually allows the rhythm and beauty of the natural world to reawaken her desire to live.

Food for Thought

Food for Thought
Author: Annie Gray
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2020-04-23
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1529038111

A delicious anthology of classic food writing to satisfy every palate, this gorgeous book will delight food lovers everywhere. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning pocket size classics. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is edited and introduced by food historian, lecturer and broadcaster Annie Gray. From ancient times to today’s celebrity chefs, people have always been inspired to write about food. In this delectable collection, Food for Thought, food historian Annie Gray has chosen an array of material to entertain and inspire. The variety is impressive – from lavish feasts in classical times to street food of pea soup and eels in 19th century London, and from how to find food on a desert island to meat free meals by Agnes Jekyll. Brimming with satire on Victorian etiquette, intriguing recipes through the centuries and culinary advice from cooks and hosts, there is so much here to enjoy.

Colette

Colette
Author: Nicole Ward Jouve
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 1987
Genre: Women and literature
ISBN: 9780253301024

Though Colette's novels have been thought sentimental and she herself has earned a certain notoriety as a decadent sensualist, Nicole Ward Jouve argues that we need to look closely at Colette's work again, and with the hindsight of feminist theory, to rediscover that inimitable talent for the inscription of sensual and familial pleasure.