The pure and the impure /
It was Colette's desire to add to the limited treasury of truthful insights into love, into the mysteries of love in its many forms. She used her customery semifictional formula to report on the behavior, the mores, reflexes, instincts of women, especially as sentient, desiring creatures drawn...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus & Giroux,
[1967]
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| Summary: | It was Colette's desire to add to the limited treasury of truthful insights into love, into the mysteries of love in its many forms. She used her customery semifictional formula to report on the behavior, the mores, reflexes, instincts of women, especially as sentient, desiring creatures drawn to similarities and even to substitutes. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published in french under the title "Ces plaisirs" in 1932 and in 1942 under the title "Le pur et l'impur." The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Arden Eversmeyer Collection. |
| Physical Description: | 174 pages ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 094032248X 9780940322486 |