Break of day

Colette

Original title: Naissance du jour

earliest edition we have, 1961 Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002 141 pages

Noonday — book 493

"The novel's theme--the renunciation of love and the return to an independent existence supported and enriched by the beauty and peace of nature--grows out of Collette's own period of self-assessment in the middle of her life"--P.4 of cover.

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Break of day edition · 2002 · Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 141 pages
Break of day edition · 1961 · Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 143 pages
Break of day edition · Ballantine Books · 117 pages

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