Claudine A L'ecole ; Claudine A Paris ; Claudine En Menage ; Claudine S'en Va (French Edition)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9782226005540 (2226005544)
Publish date: November 1st 1977
Publisher: Albin Michel
Pages no: 593
Edition language: French
Category:
Young Adult,
Classics,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Literary Fiction,
Coming Of Age,
France,
French Literature,
Womens,
Glbt,
Queer
Series: Claudine (#1)
This is the first of four novels tracking the life of winsome, clever Claudine. The story opens with the famously familiar sentence: My name is Claudine, I live in Montigny; I was born there in 1884; I shall probably not die there. Claudine's certitude and confidence propels her through her life, an...
Yet another book I picked up because I liked the cover. (Interesting sidenote, the photo on the cover, would turn out to be of Evelyn Nesbitt, whose heartbeaking biography I read last year.) This was my introduction to Colette, and I feel hard. Claudine is one of my favorite heroines, possible secon...