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At the snap of the clasp, ripples spread over the lace frilled sheets, and from their midst rose two magnificent thin-wristed arms, lifting on high two lovely lazy hands.
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"Everything that Colette touched became human . . . She was a complete sensualist; but she gave herself up to her senses with such delicacy of perception, with such exquisiteness of physical pain as well as physical ecstasy, that she ennobled sensualism to grandeur." --"The Times"
""Cheri "is her masterpiece."--Michael Straight, "The New Republic "
"Dramatic and moving . . . ["Cheri"] endears itself to the reader partly because of its subject, but more because of the manner of its telling."--"The New York Times"
"Cheri "is her masterpiece.--Michael Straight "The New Republic ""
"Everything that Colette touched became human . . . She was a complete sensualist; but she gave herself up to her senses with such delicacy of perception, with such exquisiteness of physical pain as well as physical ecstasy, that she ennobled sensualism to grandeur." --"The Times"
""Cheri "is her masterpiece." --Michael Straight, "The New Republic"
"Dramatic and moving . . . ["Cheri"] endears itself to the reader partly because of its subject, but more because of the manner of its telling." --"The New York Times""
Everything that Colette touched became human . . . She was a complete sensualist; but she gave herself up to her senses with such delicacy of perception, with such exquisiteness of physical pain as well as physical ecstasy, that she ennobled sensualism to grandeur. "The Times"
"Cheri "is her masterpiece. Michael Straight, "The New Republic"
Dramatic and moving . . . ["Cheri"] endears itself to the reader partly because of its subject, but more because of the manner of its telling. "The New York Times""
Everything that Colette touched became human . . . She was a complete sensualist; but she gave herself up to her senses with such delicacy of perception, with such exquisiteness of physical pain as well as physical ecstasy, that she ennobled sensualism to grandeur. The Times
Cheri is her masterpiece. Michael Straight, The New Republic
Dramatic and moving . . . [Cheri] endears itself to the reader partly because of its subject, but more because of the manner of its telling. The New York Times
""Everything that Colette touched became human . . . She was a complete sensualist; but she gave herself up to her senses with such delicacy of perception, with such exquisiteness of physical pain as well as physical ecstasy, that she ennobled sensualism to grandeur." --The Times
"Cheri is her masterpiece." --Michael Straight, The New Republic
"Dramatic and moving . . . [Cheri] endears itself to the reader partly because of its subject, but more because of the manner of its telling." --The New York Times
Born in 1873 in France, Colette was the author of many acclaimed novels noted for their intimate style.Other Colette titles from FSG include The Complete Claudine, Gigi, Julie de Carneilhan, and Chance Acquaintances, Vagabond, and The Complete Stories of Colette. She died in 1954.
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