Green Sealing Wax : A Story

In this autobiographical gem about her first impulses to write, a young Colette nurses a romance with her father's tools: blotting paper, an ebony ruler, stationary, pens, and sealing wax of various colours - red, violet, and green. Meanwhile, the facts of life bloom around her. Her parents argue, a neighbour dies, and Madame Hervouet, the old man's widow, quite simply loses her mind . . .