20th-century anthology book c19 classic classic-literature classics colette collection compilation female-author feminist fiction france french french-fiction french-literature literature short-fiction short-stories short-story stories women women-writers

The Collected Stories of Colette beings together in one volume for the first time in any language the comprehensive collection of short stories by the novelist known worldwide as Colette, and now acknowledged, with Proust, as the most original French narrative writer of the first half of our century. of the one hundred stories gathered here, thirty-one appear for the first time in English and another twenty-nine have been newly translated for this volume.