Julie de Carneilhan

But once the sickly count calls for her, she is ready to forgive him everything again—although she understands that he treated her badly. Julie saves herself from this love and runs away from Paris in an original way: together with her brother, she drives horses to her estate. Such an ending is very much in the spirit of Colette: better good horses than bad counts.

In this book for readers, the brilliant French writer and XX century classic Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873–1954) includes novels and novellas first published in France from 1930 to 1945, famous essays about what is allowed and forbidden in love (“Pure and Impure”), as well as a portrait of her life and work in the last 25 years of her life. In Russian, most works are being published for the first time.