Earthly Paradise
by Colette
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Well-written. Interesting, intelligent and courageous woman. I would expect that women readers will enjoy this more than the rest of us. Fourth star is for women readers, surely the majority.
this started out really well but as she got older i found it less and less interesting.
one of my all-time favorite books
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- Canonical title
- Earthly Paradise
- Original title
- Paradis Terrestre
- Alternate titles
- The Earthly Paradise
- Original publication date
- 1953
- First words
- To call to mind everything a child's heart encompasses, to delight again in all it holds of goodness, decency, cunning, and suspicion - at the same time to describe the marvellous instinct that impels a child to suppress what... (show all) should be hidden, the instinct that makes him keep a childlike aspect while, safe behind that facade of a frisky little body, formless features, tousled hair, he gravely looks out at the world, deliberating, judging, and suffering with proud reserve ...
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- A paru d'abord en anglais sous le titre : "Earthly paradise"
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- Biography & Memoir
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- 848.91203 — Literature & rhetoric French Literature French miscellaneous writings 1900- 1900-1999 1900-1945 Diaries, journals, notebooks, reminiscences
- LCC
- PQ2605 .O28 .Z5 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures French literature Modern literature 1900-1960
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