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Claudine's House

By Colette
Penguin Classics
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Colette's irresistible depiction of a childhood in rural France, in a lush new translation by Belinda Jack. 'I was an independent, stray dog who answered to no one...' Claudine lives in a large house with a rose-filled garden and a vegetable patch smelling of tomato leaves... Read More
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Colette's irresistible depiction of a childhood in rural France, in a lush new translation by Belinda Jack.

'I was an independent, stray dog who answered to no one...'

Claudine lives in a large house with a rose-filled garden and a vegetable patch smelling of tomato leaves and apricots. Beyond her house is the village, where travelling performers stop for the night and wedding feasts take place under a bright summer moon. Inside her house are Mama, who loves animals, and Papa, who lost his leg in the war, and a library full of forbidden and irresistible books...

Based on Colette's own early life, Claudine's House is a rich and enchanting depiction of childhood, animals, flowers, trees, books, families, and love in late-nineteenth-century France.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241574690

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 27 August 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Contributors:

  • Translated by Belinda Jack

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 200g

Pages: 144

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About the Author

Colette (Author) Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette was born in 1873 in a village in Burgundy, France, and would later recall her bucolic home and eccentric family in the semi-fictionalized Claudine's House. At the age of twenty, she married the publisher and author 'Willy', who encouraged her to write her first four novels. The novels made her famous, but her husband, under whose name they had been published, retained her earnings. Escaping her marriage, Colette became a performer in France's music halls, an era of her life she would later describe in The Vagabond. She wrote her most famous works during the 1920s and 30s; these included Cheri, depicting a relationship between an older woman and young man, and Gigi, the story of a young girl in training to become a courtesan. Colette died in 1954. Belinda Jack (Translator) Belinda Jack is the author of an acclaimed biography of George Sand and Beatrice's Spell- The Enduring Legend of Beatrice Cenci.

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