Colline

Jean Giono

first published 1929 B. Blackwell, 1986 96 pages

Textes de littérature moderne et contemporaine — book 84

An NYRB Classics Original: Deep in Provence, a century ago, four stone houses perch on a hillside. Wildness presses in from all sides. Beyond a patchwork of field, a mass of green threatens to overwhelm the village. The animal world-a miming cat, a malevolent boar- displays a mind of its own. The four houses have a dozen residents-and then there is Gagou, a mute drifter. Janet, the eldest of the men, is bedridden; he...

Where to get it

Search WorldCat (worldwide union catalog) for this title

This opens a library search. We don't know what any library holds — the search may come back empty.

Change library
You pick this yourself. We don't guess it from your location, and we don't record where you are.

How it reads

Pace We don't know yet not analysed yet
Density We don't know yet not analysed yet
Tone We don't know yet not analysed yet

Your log

Sign in to log this book — your log is private to you.

What readers call it

No reader has tagged this one yet — be the first.

Sign in to confirm or add — reader tags are the only source of this information.

Content warnings

Reported by readers, not by us or the author. Unreported is not the same as absent.

No content warnings reported. That means no reader has added one yet — not that this book has none.

Also called trigger warnings. Reader reporting opens with the reading log.

Add a content warning

Editions we hold

Colline edition · 2006 · Champion · 532 pages
Colline paperback · 2002 · Grasset · 9782246122944
Colline edition · 1986 · B. Blackwell · 96 pages
Colline. paperback · 1984 · [Librairie Générale Française] · 159 pages
Colline paperback · 1960 · French & European Pubns · 9780318634623

Bibliographic facts on this page come from the Open Library monthly dump (CC0) unless a correction says otherwise. Nothing here is generated.