The story of a murder trial that dominates the life of a small town for one week.

The play is heavily metatheatrical, being not only staged at but also set at the Ambassador Theatre, the actors playing actors appearing in a play at the Ambassador. This play-within-a-play concerns a strategic bombing squadron; the squadron commander frequently steps out of character to reassure the audience that they are only watching a play. This conceit is carried to the point where the actors themselves exhibit confusion over whether they really...

This story tells how the vixen is captured but escapes, marries, and raises a litter. She is shot by a poacher, but her spirit survives in her cubs.

Colette's work consists of fifteen novels, fifteen long stories, scores of very short tales and sketches, and half a dozen volumes of nonfiction. This preset additions of the Permanent Library makes available, for the fist time, what we consider to be the best and most typical of her novels.