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MY CONTEMPORARIES by COCTEAU JEAN
$31.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Peter Owen Modern Classics Ser.
Recollections of Proust, Piaf, Colette, and a host of luminaries from Bohemian Paris For almost 50 years up until his death in 1963, Jean Cocteau held a unique place in French cultural life. The breadth of his artistic success bears witness to the astounding variety of his talents. In the fields ...Show more
Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann HESSE
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Peter Owen Modern Classics S.
This book comes with a new foreword by Graham Coxon. Narcissus is a teacher at Mariabronn, a monastery in medieval Germany, and Goldmund is his favourite pupil. While Narcissus remains detached from the world in prayer and meditation, Goldmund runs away from the monastery in pursuit of love. Thereafter, ...Show more
Scandal by Shusaku Endo
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Peter Owen Modern Classics S.
Suguro is an eminent Catholic novelist, respectably married and on the cusp of old age. So when a drunken woman approaches him at an awards ceremony claiming to know him from his regular visits to Tokyo's red-light district, she must surely be mistaken.
The Three-Cornered World by Natsume Sôseki
$22.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Peter Owen Modern Classics Ser.
A key work in the Japanese transition from traditional to modern literature "Walking up a mountain track, I fell to thinking. Approach everything rationally, and you become harsh. Pole along in the stream of emotions, and you will be swept away by the current. Give free rein to your desires, and y ...Show more
Thomas the Impostor by Jean Cocteau
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Peter Owen Modern Classics S.
Written in 1923 with 22WWl as background, an excellent example of Cocteau's verve, urbanity, and stylistic brilliance. Here, imaginative sixteen-year-old Thomas 'borrows' an illustrious ancestry which both a widowed Princess and her young daughter find irresistible.
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