Cheri and The Last of Cheri(Modern Classics Series.) - Softcover

"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.