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  • Published: 30 April 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446475058
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240

Claudine At School

  • Colette



The first book in the Claudine series which became a cultural phenomenon in early 20th century France - featured in the new, acclaimed film COLETTE, starring Keira Knightley, out Jan 2019.

THE STORIES THAT INSPIRED THE FILM COLETTE, out Jan 2019.

The first book in Colette's enchanting Claudine series.

Colette’s enchanting stories of the clever and charming Claudine were first published under her husband’s name, and they were an instant sensation in early twentieth-century France. In Claudine at School we meet Claudine as a teenager, wickedly witty, rebellious and effervescent, competing with her new headmistress for the affections of the pretty mistress Miss Aimee. With her first book Colette turned her life into art and a literary icon was born.

  • Published: 30 April 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446475058
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 240

Praise for Claudine At School

A perpetual feast to the reader. Her prose is rich, flawless, intricate, audacious and utterly beautiful

Raymond Mortimer, Vogue

Everything that Colette touched became human

The Times

Her sensual prose style made her one of the great writers of 20th century France

New York Times Book Review

Accessible and elusive; greedy and austere; courageous and timid; subversive and complacent; scorchingly honest and sublimely mendacious; an inspired consoler and an existential pessimist—these are the qualities of the artist and the woman. It is time to rediscover them

Judith Thurman, biographer of Colette