Les Enfants Terribles (Rosamond Lehmann Translation) - Softcover

Jean Cocteau

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1860466885 ISBN 13: 9781860466885

Publisher: The Harvill Press, 1999

Synopsis

DIFFERENT OFFER (this item listed here is DIFFERENT from the title and/or picture above. Please see description & pictures by BookGems before placing an order): Edition Penguin Modern Classics, 1981. English translation by Rosamond Lehmann, with illustrations by the author. Just light tan to paper edges. Other than that, the book remains in very good condition throughout. Text all clean, neat and tight. Prompt dispatch from UK.

About this title

Product Description:

Jean Cocteau -- poet, novelist, dramatist, artist, musician -- was a leading figure in the Surrealist movement. In addition to his popular novel Les Enfants Terribles (1929), he is best remembered in the English-speaking world for the film "Orphee" (1950). "From the Paperback edition.""

Review:

"The last feeling that his work leaves is one of happiness; not of course in the sense that it excludes suffering, but because, in it, nothing is rejected, resented or regretted." W.H. Auden "Cocteau's tale of young beauties whose isolation leads them towards premature decay... a genuine tragedy." "Independent on Sunday ""The novel of Les Enfants Terribles" "has become a rite of passage in every French childhood." "Guardian""

About this edition

• Publisher: The Harvill Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1860466885
• ISBN 13: 9781860466885
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144