# Chéri

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![Chéri](https://quivercdn.com/covers/penguin-classics/colette/cheri_978-02-4157-470-6.jpg?v=2026-04-25%2001%3A12%3A16)

- Book: [Cheri](https://www.bookquiver.com/colette/cheri) ([Cheri.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/colette/cheri.md))
- Authors: [Colette](https://www.bookquiver.com/colette)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4157-470-6
- Pages: 128
- Published: 2026-10-29
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Chéri: spoiled, petulant, beautiful, aged twenty-five. Léa: magnificent, brilliant, remorseless, aged forty-nine. They are in love, but their relationship exists beyond the bounds of social acceptability and must one day come to an end, no matter the cost. A succ ès de scandale on publication for its depiction of transgressive love, Colette’s celebrated novella is also a profound and compelling exploration of the passage of time, the body and ageing, mirrors, self-perception, self-knowledge and the tragedy of mortality.