Journey for myself

the long version

Famous for her novels, Colette is less known for her essays and occasional pieces, many of with still remain untranslated. The present volume is the third of a series of collected writings by Colette which are being made available in English for the first time. (The second in this series, a new story collection entitled *The Other Woman*, is being published concurrently with *Journey for Myself*.) *Journey for Myself* presents a rich potpouri expressing Colette's capacity for sensuous pleasure: her delight in fashion, its frivolity and femininity, and in the succulence of old-style country cookery. She reminisces, too about her childhood and that of her daughter, recollects and portrays friends, animals, birds, flowers. All Colette is here - her feeling for the very texture of life, celebrated in terms that are intensely personal and evocative.