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The Pure and the Impure
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The Pure and the Impure Trade paperback - 2000

by Colette (Author); Herma Brifault (Translated by); Judith Thurman (Introduction by)

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New York: New York Review Books, 2000. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback. Like New. 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): 7¾" x 9¾" tall. Katy Homans (Cover Design). 184 pp. An excellent, spotlessly clean copy! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially and virtually flawless copy with crisp pages, clean text, and very light shelf wear.
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  • Title The Pure and the Impure
  • Author Colette (Author); Herma Brifault (Translated by); Judith Thurman (Introduction by)
  • Illustrator Katy Homans (Cover Design)
  • Binding Trade Paperback
  • Edition 2nd Printing
  • Condition New
  • Pages 184
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New York Review Books, New York
  • Date 2000
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 8iAa0091
  • ISBN 9780940322486 / 094032248X
  • Weight 0.47 lbs (0.21 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.01 x 0.6 in (20.32 x 12.73 x 1.52 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Cultural Region: French
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Sex & Gender: Lesbian
    • Topical: Lgbt
  • Library of Congress subjects Sex, French literature - 20th century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00009532
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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  • New York Times, 11/12/2000, Page 40
  • Reference and Research Bk News, 11/01/2000, Page 168
  • Vogue, 12/01/2000, Page 258

About the author

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette [1873-1954], was born in the village of Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, where she led an idyllic childhood. At the age of twenty, she married Henri Gauthier-Villars, known as Willy, a Parisian man of letters under whose name she published the Claudine novels. Separated from Willy in 1905, Colette supported herself as an actress before establishing her own reputation as a writer. She was celebrated in later years as one of the great figures of twentieth-century French life and letters, and was the first woman to be accorded a state funeral by the French Republic.

Judith Thurman is the author of Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette and of Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller, which won the National Book Award for Biography in 1983. She is a widely published literary critic, cultural journalist, and translator of poetry.

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