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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
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
THEIR HEADS ARE GREEN by PAUL BOWLES
Category: Travel | Series: Peter Owen Modern Classics Ser.
Bowles writes of his life and experiences in Morocco, his journeys to the Sahara and his other travels. He evokes the unique characteristics of both people and places.
TO THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE by GIONO JEAN
Category: unmapped | Series: Peter Owen Modern Classics Ser.
Written in chilling detail, this novel describes the effect of World War I on a small community in Provence. In some of the most fiercely realistic and horrifying scenes of war ever recreated in literature, this story evokes the harsh, primitive conditions in the trenches as well as the loneliness and a ...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.
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