Cheri and The Last of Cheri Author:Colette From back cover: "These two novels recount the rise and fall of a spoiled, capricious, and much too handsome young man. Cheri grew up before the First World War in the fabulous demimonde of Parisian courtesans. In this portrait of him - and of the older woman who gave him a lesson in love - Collette reached the peak of her exquisitely perverse a... more »rt. As Raymond Mortimer has written, "Cheri" and "The Last of Cheri" "form the classic analysis of a love-affair between a very young man and a middle-aged woman."« less