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The Complete Claudine: Claudine at School/Claudine in Paris/Claudine Married/Claudine and Annie
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 …
The Vagabond
Thirty-three years-old and recently divorced, Ren e N r has begun a new life on her own, supporting herself as a music-hall artist. Maxime, a rich and idle bachelor, intrudes on …
A Balthus Notebook
In his 1989 book on Balthus—the storied and controversial artist who worked in Paris throughout the twentieth century—Guy Davenport gives one of the most nuanced, literary, and …
Gigi, Julie de Carneilhan, and Chance Acquaintances: Three Short Novels
Two volumes of Colette's most beloved works, with a new Introduction by Judith Thurman. Perhaps Colette's best-known work, Gigi is the story of a young girl being raised in a …
Richard Avedon: Photographs 1946–2004
In August of 2007, Denmark's renowned Louisiana Museum of Modern Art presents Richard Avedon: Photographs 1946-2004, the first major retrospective devoted to Avedon's work since …
The Pure and the Impure
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 …
Cheri and the Last of Cheri
Two volumes of Colette's most beloved works, with a new Introduction by Judith Thurman. Ch ri, together with The Last of Ch ri, is a classic story of a love affair between a very …
Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette
A dazzling biography of the French literary superstar Colette, who is also the subject of a major motion picture. "A fine and intelligent biography of Colette, with her long …
Everything Is Alive
Oka Doner's life work shines a light on the continuing importance of art and the transformative power of our cosmic and enchanting natural world. Michele Oka Doner is one of …
Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller
Judith Thurman's brilliant, National Book Award-winning biography of Isak Dinesen--now with a new foreword by the author A brilliant literary portrait, Isak Dinesen remains the …
Secrets of the Flesh
A scandalously talented stage performer, a practiced seductress of both men and women, and the flamboyant author of some of the greatest works of twentieth-century literature, …
A Left-Handed Woman: Essays
WINNER OF THE 2023 PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY A collection of essays from Judith Thurman, the National Book Award-winning biographer and New Yorker …