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The Human Voice by Jean Cocteau; Daniel Raggett (Translator)
Category: Film & Tv | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
'I'm whispering into your ear - and we couldn't be further apart.' A woman, a phone call, a final conversation. In this extraordinary and prophetic monologue a woman fights for the person she loves. Jean Cocteau's iconic play explores our desperate need for human relationships - and the machine that ...Show more
The Infernal Machine and Other Plays by Jean Cocteau
Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
Among the great figures who pioneered the modern movement in world literature, none showed himself more versatile than France's Jean Cocteau. Poet, novelist, critic, artist, actor, film-maker, Cocteau was also one of the greatest dramatists Europe has produced, with over a dozen plays which are frequent ...Show more
The White Book (le Livre Blanc) by Jean Cocteau; Margaret Crosland (Translator)
Category: Fiction
Le Livre Blanc, attributed to Jean Cocteau, has a twofold interest: first because of its appeal to bibliophiles as a collector's item, and second because of its assumed authorship. Cocteau never formally acknowledged the book, except in so far as he allowed it to appear in the 'authorized' bibliography ...Show more
Thomas the Impostor by Jean Cocteau
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.