Gigi and The Cat

Fiction Satire

Author: Colette

Gigi is being educated in the skills of the Courtesan: to choose cigars, to eat lobster, to enter a world where a woman’s chief weapon is her body. However, when it comes to the question of Gaston Lachaille, very rich, and very bored, Gigi does not want to obey the rules.In ‘The Cat’, a story of burgeoning sexuality and blossoming love, an exquisite strong-minded Russian B….Read More

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