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Asylum Piece by Anna Kavan
Category: Fiction | Series: Peter Owen Modern Classic
Anna Kavan was always a dark writer, a very dark writer. Like Kafka, she writes of prisons with no bars, of paranoiac nightmares, of living in a halfway world between hell and reality. First published sixty years ago (Doubleday did it in the U.S. in 1946), Asylum Piece charts the descent of the narrator ...Show more
Dan Yack by Blaise Cendrars
Category: Fiction | Series: Peter Owen Modern Classic
Dan Yack is an eccentric English millionaire shipowner, a notorious hell-raiser, and the envy of all St Petersburg. He is also the alter ego of his creator, Blaise Cendrars. This strange travel yarn begins with Dan Yack fiding out that he is no longer wanted by his lover, Hedwiga. Rejection letter in ha ...Show more
Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assís; Robert Scott-Buccleuch (Translator)
Category: Classics | 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
Gold : The Marvellous History of General John Augustus Sutter by Nina Blaise; Rootes Cendrars
Category: Fiction | Series: Peter Owen Modern Classics
I am Lazarus by Anna Kavan
Category: Fiction | Series: Peter Owen Modern Classic Ser.
Short stories addressing the surreal realities of mental illness, from an incredible cult writer often compared to Kafka and Woolf The tortured life of Anna Kavan brought her some reward in terms of great pieces of art. Her drug addiction bore fruit in the "Julia and the Bazooka" collection of stories; ...Show more
Julia and the Bazooka: and Other Short Stories by Anna Kavan
Category: Fiction | Series: Peter Owen Modern Classics Ser.
'Julia and the Bazooka' contains some of Kavan's most compelling writing, which owes much to her personal experiences - especially her nearly lifelong addiction to heroin. An important literary work, these stories highlight the shadowed world of the incurable drug addict and probe the psychological aspe ...Show more
Kappa by G. H. (INT) Geoffrey (TRN); Healey Ryunosuke; Bownas Akutagawa
Category: Fiction | Series: Peter Owen Modern Classic
Ladders to Fire by Anais Nin
Category: Fiction | Series: Peter Owen Modern Classic
Now famed for her extraordinary volumes of erotica, Anais Nin originally made her reputation with a collection of lyrical novels known as the Cities of the Interior series. Published in the aftermath of the Second World War, they were concieved by Nin as part of a 'roman fleuve', or continuous experienc ...Show more
Le Livre Blanc by Jean Cocteau
Category: Biography | Series: A\Peter Owen Modern Classic Ser.
The semi-autobiographical narrative describes a youth's love affairs with a succession of boys and men during the early years of this century. The book ends with a strong plea for male homosexuality to be accepted without censure.
MY CONTEMPORARIES by COCTEAU JEAN
Category: Biography Memoir | 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
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
Paris France by Gertrude Stein
Category: Biography | 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.