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Gigi
Colette
  • Published: 4 June 2026
  • ISBN: 9781802060355
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336

Gigi

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8 Sept 2026
EBook
4 June 2026
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Colette's most famous novella, in a vivid new Penguin Classics translation

‘Fine teeth, my girl. With teeth like that I’d have gobbled up Paris and the rest of the world.'

Gigi, a teenage girl in fin-de-siècle Paris, is being groomed by her family to become a high-class courtesan, just like her aunt and grandmother before her. But despite their best efforts, their timid protégée may have other ideas for her future...

Colette's famous novella is a sly and delicate depiction of exploitation and resistance, and is paired here with the wonderful short novel ‘The Cat’.
  • Published: 4 June 2026
  • ISBN: 9781802060355
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336
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Praise for Gigi

Everything that Colette touched became human

The Times

This most French of all French writers tells us how love sometimes binds and keeps a woman from breathing freely or how it may shape and support her . . . One thinks of her as the female voice of Paris

New York Times

By turns revolutionary and retrograde, liberated and conservative, a traditionalist who defied labels and loved a title, Colette was nothing if not contradictory. Both her life and her body of work were epic

Sadie Stein, New York Times

Colette was in herself a French experiment in life. Her writing was born of her insatiable curiosity for life and love

Agnès Poirier, The Times

The most beloved French writer of all time

BBC Culture