Chéri by Colette

"Chéri" by Colette is a novel published in 1920. It tells the story of an affair between Léa, a forty-nine-year-old retired courtesan, and Chéri, her lover of six years who is twenty-five. When Chéri prepares to marry a young woman his own age, both he and Léa must confront what their relationship truly means. Set against the backdrop of Parisian high society, this intimate portrait explores aging, desire, and the painful recognition of love discovered too late. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Colette, 1873-1954
Title Chéri
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A9ri_(novel)
Credits Produced by Anne Soulard, Nicole Apostola, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
Reading Level Reading ease score: 83.5 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Language French
LoC Class PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Subject Young men -- Fiction
Subject France -- Fiction
Subject Courtesans -- Fiction
Subject Middle-aged women -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 6484
Release Date
Last Update Nov 19, 2020
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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