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About This Book:

Title: The Vagabond

Other Available Formats:
Hardcover, 1974
Paperback, 1982
Hardcover, 1995
Paperback, 1995
Paperback, 2001

Synopsis
In Colette's THE VAGABOND, it is 1910 Paris, and Renée is divorced from her husband and working in a music hall--as Colette herself did at around the same time. Renée's life is not easy, and she is tempted when a wealthy man named Maxime falls in love with her and wants to marry her. However, she understands that she is at heart a vagabond, and despite the limitations of her life--and the attractions of a life with a man who loves her--she knows that only as a single woman can she be true to herself. Colette's heavily autobiographical novel is a classic of feminist writing--and a poetic and deeply moving story. This 1910 novel was Colette's first fully realized, mature work of fiction.

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Industry Reviews
"Filled with sharply drawn vignettes of French music-hall life, 'The Vagabond' is a charming and subtle study of a firm-grained mind in conflict with a yielding heart."
(March 1955)
"A jury of French writers has chosen this as one of the twelve best stories of France in the last fifty years."
(02/01/1955)
"Wonderfully worth reading. It has all Colette's zest and tang, all her reverence for fruits, animals, seasons, and human beings."
(10/02/1954)
"This enchanting, sincere, and beautifully constructed novel....explores, with Colette's infinite patience and precision, the beating heart of woman in an age when love is not passionate romance nor tender dream but an abiding duel."
(02/13/1955)
"'The Vagabond' offers the truest portrait ever made of the tangy milieu of French vaudeville, along with the confessions of a complex and captivating woman who hated men but could not resist them."
(02/21/1955)
"[Colette's] evocation of the atmosphere and characters of the Parisian music-halls is brilliant, her insight into emotion often shrewd, but there is something suspect in her tone of over-sentimental sadness, and also in her undeniable desire to scandalize the public."
(11/05/1954)


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Book Details Summary: The title of this book is The Vagabond and it was written by Colette, Stanley Appelbaum. This edition of The Vagabond is in a Book format. This books publish date is April 2010 and it has a suggested retail price of $. There are pages in the book and it was published by Dover Publications. The 10 digit ISBN is 0486475859 and the 13 digit ISBN is 9780486475851. For the most current lowest price, Click Here.