Pure & the Impure
Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780345300607 (0345300602)
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Literary Fiction,
Sexuality,
France,
French Literature,
Womens,
Glbt
I've just finished re-reading the only book of Colette I have ever read. When I first read it, so many years ago, my French was not up to the challenge - fortunately, that is no longer the case. It is evident from the earlier reviews (in GoodReads) that this book is many things to many people - in...
"But what is the heart, madame? It's worth less than people think. It’s quite accommodating, it accepts anything. You give it whatever you have, it's not very particular. But the body... Ha! That's something else again! It has a cultivated taste, as they say, it knows what it wants. A heart doesn't ...