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Book of Nonsense by Mervyn Peake
Category: No Category | Series: A\Peter Owen Modern Classic Ser.
Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assís; Robert Scott-Buccleuch (Translator)
Category: No Category | Series: Peter Owen Modern Classic Ser.
"A palm tree, seeing me troubled and divining the cause, murmured in its branches that there was nothing wrong with fifteen-year old boys getting into corners with girls of fourteen; quite the contrary, youths of that age have no other function, and corners were made for that very purpose. It was an old ...Show more
Duo and le Toutounier by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette; Margaret Crosland (Translator)
Category: No Category | Series: Peter Owen Modern Classic Ser.
In Duo, Colette observes, with masterly astuteness and perception, two characters whose marriage is foundering on the wife's infidelity. Acting out the final crisis, Alice and Michel have the stage to themselves so that nothing is allowed to distract from the marital dialogue. Le Toutounier continues Al ...Show more
Le Livre Blanc by Jean Cocteau; Margaret Crosland (Translator)
Category: No Category | Series: Peter Owen Modern Classic Ser.
Le Livre Blanc, a "white paper" on homosexual love, was first published anonymously in France by Cocteau's contemporary Maurice Sachs and was at once decried as by the critics as obscene. It is now possible to issue it under Cocteau's name. The semi-autobiographical narrative describes a youth's love a ...Show more
Paris France by Gertrude Stein
Category: Classics | Series: Peter Owen Modern Classic Ser.
Published the day Paris fell to the Germans, this is Gertrude Stein's look at food, fashion and France using her unique sense of humour.
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