Query: 1900s LGBT novels or by Colette
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
Green Wheat
Mitsou (novella)
Wings (Kuzmin novel)
Hell (Barbusse novel)
Imre: A Memorandum
The Vagabond (novel)
Duo (novel)
Gigi (novella)
The Pure and the Impure
The Confusions of Young Törless
La Chatte
Break of Day
Chéri (novel)
The Last of Chéri
An Anglo-American Alliance
Claudine at School
Julie de Carneilhan (novel)
Beatrice the Sixteenth
Evidence from documents: Green Wheat: '''''Green Wheat''''' () is a 1923 novel by the French writer Colette. The book was written during the vacation of the writer on her property Roz-Ven in Saint-Coulomb, between Saint-Malo and Cancale.
Phil and Vinca meet every year during the summer holidays in Brittany. They have always been interested in each other, but Phil meets a woman who introduces him to carnal love. Vinca feels the betrayal of her friend.
Mitsou (novella): '''''Mitsou''''' is the name of a French war-time novella that was published by Colette in 1919.
Wings (Kuzmin novel): '''''Wings''''' () was the first Russian novel centred on homosexuality. Written by Mikhail Kuzmin, it was printed in 1906 to the consternation of a conservative literary establishment.
Hell (Barbusse novel): ''''Hell''''' () is Henri Barbusse's second novel, written in 1908, in which the unnamed narrator spies on his fellow house guests through a peephole in his wall.
The narrator, unmarried and friendless, books a room in a Paris boarding house. By chance he finds a hole in his wall, through which he can see the adjoining room and its inhabitants. From the other side, he witnesses lesbianism, adultery, incest, thievery, vicious proselytizing and death, musing to the reader on the philosophical implications of the events he witnesses.
Imre: A Memorandum: is a 1906 novel by the expatriate American-born author Edward Prime-Stevenson about the homosexual relationship between two men.
The Vagabond (novel): '''''The Vagabond''''' () is a 1910 novel by the French writer Colette.
Duo (novel): '''''Duo''''' is a 1934 novel by the French writer Colette.
Gigi (novella): '''''Gigi''''' () is a 1944 novella by French writer Colette. The plot focuses on a young Parisian girl being groomed for a career as a courtesan and her relationship with the wealthy cultured man named Gaston who falls in love with her and eventually marries her.
The Pure and the Impure: '''''The Pure and the Impure''''' () is a 1932 novel by the French writer Colette. It consists of a series of conversations about sex, gender and attraction. Colette considered it her best book, and described it as "the nearest I shall ever come to writing an autobiography".
A version of the book was first publis
The Confusions of Young Törless: '''''The Confusions of Young Törless''''' (), or '''''Young Törless''''', is the literary debut of the Austrian philosophical novelist and essayist Robert Musil, first published in 1906.
Musil's novel is ostensibly a Bildungsroman, a story of a young disoriented man searching for moral values in society and their meaning for him.
La Chatte: ''' ''La Chatte''''' is a short novel by French writer Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette.
Break of Day: '''''Break of Day''''' () is a 1928 novel by the French writer Colette.
Chéri (novel): '''''Chéri''''' is a novel by Colette
The Last of Chéri: '''''The Last of Chéri''''' () is a novel written by Colette. It was published in Paris in 1926. It is the sequel to Colette's 1920 novel ''Chéri''.
''The Last of Chéri'' picks up the lives of Cheri and Lea after a six-year break during which World War I has been fought and Cheri returns an uninjured hero. During this time, Edmee and Madame Peloux have become more assertive in home and business as do many women in the burgeoning suffragist movement. Cheri finds himself wandering aimlessly with no focus now that he does not have his former lover Lea nor the war to occupy his time.
An Anglo-American Alliance: ''''An Anglo-American Alliance: A Serio-Comic Romance and Forecast of the Future''''' is a 1906 novel written and illustrated by Gregory Casparian and published by Mayflower Presses. A reviewer for ''io9'' has called it "the first lesbian science fiction novel".
Julie de Carneilhan (novel): '''''Julie de Carneilhan''''' is a 1941 novel by the French writer Colette.
Beatrice the Sixteenth: The novel has been cited as a predecessor of other feminist utopias and modern radical feminist thinking on gender and sexuality.