Count D'Orgel's Ball

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Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 9781590171387
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (713 download)

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Book Synopsis Count D'Orgel's Ball by : Raymond Radiguet

Download or read book Count D'Orgel's Ball written by Raymond Radiguet and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2005-03-31 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Count d'Orgel is handsome, charming, and carefree, a model of cool aristocratic aplomb. His wife, the Countess, is beautiful and pure and loves her husband more than anything in the world. But from the moment the d'Orgels meet and befriend the clever young François de Séryeuse backstage at the circus, all three of these supremely civilized and witty people are caught up in an ever more intricate and seductive dance of deception and self-deception. At Count d'Orgel's masquerade ball, the real disguises are those of the human heart. Completed just before Raymond Radiguet's death at the age of twenty, Count d'Orgel's Ball is a love story that is as disturbing as it is delicious.

Count d'Orgel

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Publisher : Turtle Point Press
ISBN 13 : 9781885586025
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (86 download)

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Book Synopsis Count d'Orgel by : Raymond Radiquet

Download or read book Count d'Orgel written by Raymond Radiquet and published by Turtle Point Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A seminal work of great force, Count d'Orgel is a study of a three-sided relationship set in Paris after the First World War. John Bayley wrote that Radiguet is wholly in debt to the great French masters of economy and polished observation. His avowed intention was to create a picture of the beau monde as comprehensive as Proust's but far more taut and lapidary. In great measure he succeeded. The tale is certainly a masterpiece, one attempted and achieved by a young man of nineteen who was on his deathbed before it was published. Notes written by Jean Cocteau, Radiguet's mentor, are reprinted in this edition.

Cheeks on Fire

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Publisher : Alma Books
ISBN 13 : 0714546526
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book Cheeks on Fire written by Raymond Radiguet and published by Alma Books. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortly before his death at the age of twenty, the young literary sensation Raymond Radiguet compiled a volume of his poetry, composed between the ages of fourteen and eighteen. Presented here, this prodigious oeuvre is notable as much for its homage to classical style as it is for its risque and even licentious undertones: it is, by Radiguet's own admission, an interpretation of "e;the birth of Venus"e;, a depiction of the awakening of the senses. Based on the authoritative 1925 text, this dual-language edition also contains Radiguet's foreword to the collection, providing an invaluable insight into the history and interpretation of the works.

DEVIL IN THE FLESH.

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ISBN 13 : 9781805331575
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (315 download)

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Jean Cocteau

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300182163
Total Pages : 1039 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Book Synopsis Jean Cocteau by : Claude Arnaud

Download or read book Jean Cocteau written by Claude Arnaud and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 1039 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This passionate and monumental biography reassesses the life and legacy of one of the most significant cultural figures of the twentieth century Unevenly respected, easily hated, almost always suspected of being inferior to his reputation, Jean Cocteau has often been thought of as a jack-of-all-trades, master of none. In this landmark biography, Claude Arnaud thoroughly contests this characterization, as he celebrates Cocteau’s “fragile genius—a combination almost unlivable in art” but in his case so fertile. Arnaud narrates the life of this legendary French novelist, poet, playwright, director, filmmaker, and designer who, as a young man, pretended to be a sort of a god, but who died as a humble and exhausted craftsman. His moving and compassionate account examines the nature of Cocteau’s chameleon-like genius, his romantic attachments, his controversial politics, and his intimate involvement with many of the century’s leading artistic lights, including Picasso, Proust, Hemingway, Stravinsky, and Tennessee Williams. Already published to great critical acclaim in France, Arnaud’s penetrating and deeply researched work reveals a uniquely gifted artist while offering a magnificent cultural history of the twentieth century.

Vers Libres

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ISBN 13 : 9781533625090
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Vers Libres written by Raymond Radiguet and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-04 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The very first English translation of the poetry of French poet Raymond Radiguet.

The Flight of Icarus

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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811204835
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (48 download)

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Book Synopsis The Flight of Icarus by : Raymond Queneau

Download or read book The Flight of Icarus written by Raymond Queneau and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1973 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Flight of Icarus is Raymond Queneau's only novel written in the form of a play: seventy-four short scenes, complete with stage directions. Consciously parodying Pirandello and Robbe-Grillet, it begins with a novelist's discovery that his principal character, Icarus by name, has vanished. This in turn, sets off a rash of other such disappearances.

The Book of Monelle

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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A Burnt Child

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ISBN 13 : 9780816677993
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book A Burnt Child written by Stig Dagerman and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in a working-class neighborhood in Stockholm, A Burnt Child revolves around a young man named Bengt who falls into deep, private turmoil with the unexpected death of his mother. Written in a taut and beautifully naturalistic tone, it remains Stig Dagerman's most widely read novel and is one of the crowning works of his short but celebrated career.

Calculate Like a Grandmaster

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Publisher : Batsford Books
ISBN 13 : 1849940967
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (499 download)

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Book Synopsis Calculate Like a Grandmaster by : Daniel Gormally

Download or read book Calculate Like a Grandmaster written by Daniel Gormally and published by Batsford Books. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Learn the calculation secrets of the world's best attacking players • First book from one of the UK's biggest chess stars • Illustrated with a wealth of examples from top-level chess games This first book from one of the UK's top grandmasters is a penetrating and detailed (though engaging and friendly) study of typical games played by the most exciting chess players of the modern era, those that are renowned as 'attacking' players, from Mikhail Tal, pioneering hero of the ultra-modern attacking style, to Magnus Carlsen, teenage leader of the 'new wave' of deadly attackers, via the immortal Bobby Fischer, 'boa constrictor' Anatoly Karpov and 'King Garry' Kasparov. The author has tried to get into the heads of these stellar players, revealing the secrets of how they choose their decisive moves and succeed in delivering such awesome attacks. This inspiring book encourages you to play more imaginatively and copy the grandmasters' thought processes in your own game.

Les Six

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Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN 13 : 072061774X
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Les Six written by Robert Shapiro and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The absorbing, comprehensive story of an absolutely unique experiment in classical music, involving many key figures of the Dada and Surrealist movements Les Six were a group of talented composers who came together in a unique collaboration that has never been matched in classical music, and here their remarkable story is told for the first time. A musical experiment originally conceived by Erik Satie and then built upon by Jean Cocteau, Les Six were also born out of the shock of the German invasion of France in 1914—an avant-garde riposte to German romanticism and Wagnerism. Les Six were all—and still are—respected in music circles, but under the aegis of Cocteau, they found themselves moving among a whole new milieu: the likes of Picasso, René Clair, Blaise Cendrars, and Maurice Chevalier all appear in the story. But the story of Les Six goes on long after the heyday of Bohemian Paris—the group never officially disbanded and it was only in the last 20 years that the last member died; moreover, their spouses, descendents, and associates are still active, ensuring that the remarkable legacy of this unique group survives.

The Trials of Rumpole

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141994703
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Trials of Rumpole written by John Mortimer and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I thank heaven for small mercies. The first of these is Rumpole' Clive James Horace Rumpole, the irrepressible barrister fuelled by cigars, Tennyson, steak-and-kidney pud and the cooking claret from Pommeroy's wine bar, is back for further misadventures. Amid an unfortunate and temporary downturn in London crime, the Old Bailey Hack sits in Chambers (he never writes at home for fear of She Who Must Be Obeyed) and picks up his pen to recount six classic tales of his recent trials. Here he deals with, among others, a clergyman on a shoplifting rampage, a backstage theatrical murder, a villain with unfortunate sartorial taste and, worst of all, the possibility that he may have to hang up his wig and retire. 'Rumpole, like Jeeves and Sherlock Holmes, is immortal' P. D. James

Les Enfants Terribles

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0099561379
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Les Enfants Terribles written by Jean Cocteau and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At home, Paul shares a private world with his sister Elisabeth, a world from which parents are tacitly excluded. Their room is where the Game is played, the Game being their own bizarre version of life. All that they do outside is effectively controlled by the rules of the Game: unfortunately the rules of the Game prescribe that the two children must die...

When Paris Sizzled

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442253339
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book When Paris Sizzled written by Mary McAuliffe and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Paris Sizzled vividly portrays the City of Light during the fabulous 1920s, les Années folles, when Parisians emerged from the horrors of war to find that a new world greeted them—one that reverberated with the hard metallic clang of the assembly line, the roar of automobiles, and the beat of jazz. Mary McAuliffe traces a decade that saw seismic change on almost every front, from art and architecture to music, literature, fashion, entertainment, transportation, and, most notably, behavior. The epicenter of all this creativity, as well as of the era’s good times, was Montparnasse, where impoverished artists and writers found colleagues and cafés, and tourists discovered the Paris of their dreams. Major figures on the Paris scene—such as Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, Picasso, Stravinsky, Diaghilev, and Proust—continued to hold sway, while others now came to prominence—including Ernest Hemingway, Coco Chanel, Cole Porter, and Josephine Baker, as well as André Citroën, Le Corbusier, Man Ray, Sylvia Beach, James Joyce, and the irrepressible Kiki of Montparnasse. Paris of the 1920s unquestionably sizzled. Yet rather than being a decade of unmitigated bliss, les Années folles also saw an undercurrent of despair as well as the rise of ruthless organizations of the extreme right, aimed at annihilating whatever threatened tradition and order—a struggle that would escalate in the years ahead. Through rich illustrations and evocative narrative, Mary McAuliffe brings this vibrant era to life.

My Contemporaries

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Publisher : Peter Owen Modern Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780720612585
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book My Contemporaries written by Jean Cocteau and published by Peter Owen Modern Classics. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 of theater, cinema, art, ballet, and literature, Cocteau made many lifelong friends. Intimate portraits of some of the greatest artists of his age are included in this memorable memoir. Jean Cocteau was drawn to larger-than-life or seemingly unreal characters. He believed that their unreality was often the clue to the secrets of their personality. In descriptions of his contemporaries, Cocteau is able to illustrate everything that is accessible, sympathetic, memorable, durable, all-pervading, or dazzling about them. Ranging from the moving and atmospheric (the dying Proust in his cork-lined chamber) to the hilariously camp (Colette being carried from her apartment by sedan chair to have lunch across the road), it is in these portraits that the essence of his own work can be found. The portraits include Proust, Picasso, Piaf, Colette, Chaplin, and many more.

Les Onze Mille Verges, Or, The Amorous Adventures of Prince Mony Vibescu

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Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Les Onze Mille Verges, Or, The Amorous Adventures of Prince Mony Vibescu written by Guillaume Apollinaire and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Who's who in Gay and Lesbian History

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Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415159830
Total Pages : 611 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (151 download)

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Download or read book Who's who in Gay and Lesbian History written by Robert Aldrich and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 500 entries from more than 100 contributors, profiling gay and lesbians throughout history, ranging from Sappho to Andre Gide; most entries are accompanied by a bibliography.