COLETTE
EARTHLY PARADISE
An Autobiography

Drawn from her lifetime writings by Robert Phelps
Translated by Herma Briffault, Derek Coltman, and others

Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, NY, 1966, First Edition

Hardcover, gooodd condition, moderate shelf/reading wear, previous owner's name, dust jacket is poor, but present in one piece

In her own lifetime, and especially outside of France, Colette was best known as a novelist, as the creator of Cheri, Gigi, Claudine; and as such, her place in the ranks of 20th century French fiction is secure and very high, comparable among her contemporaries perhaps to that of Proust.  Over the same half century, she published an even larger body of explicit autobiography - memoirs, portraits, notebooks, letters.  Barely a decade after her death, it now seems clear that this aspect of her work, and the personality embodied there, will determine her place in literature.

Drawn from some forty books of her non-fiction, Earthly Paradise may be called the autobiography of her myth.  At the same time it is the vivid, year-by-year revelation of a long, eager, courageous life. 

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