My Mother's House

An updated translation of Colette’s revolutionary 1922 autobiographical collection that contains six previously untranslated chapters.

This book is a much-needed new translation of Colette’s classic La Maison de Claudine. A careful re-reading of the text was long overdue, given Colette’s evolution into one of the most admired French novelists in the modern world, the inadequacy of earlier translations, which omitted six significant chapters, and changes in contemporary attitudes on motherhoo...