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The miscreant / Jean Cocteau ; translated from the French by Dorothy Williams.

Van Pelt Library PQ2605.O15 G713 2003
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Genre:
  • Fiction.
Penn Provenance:
  • Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
Physical Description:
163 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Edition:
Paperback edition.
Place of Publication:
London ; Chester Springs [PA] : P. Owen ; Chester Springs, PA : Distributed in the USA by Dufour Editions, 2003.
Summary:
Jacques Forestier, the central character of Cocteau's famous first novel from 1921, is a parasite and dilettante who responds readily to beauty in both sexes. Leaving his provincial family he comes to Paris to study for his degree. Indulging in a life of dissipation with a group of students and their mistresses, he falls in love with Germaine, a chorus girl kept by a rich banker. The affair, doomed from the start, forces Jacques to come to terms not so much with society as he finds it but with himself.
Notes:
"First British Commonwealth edition 1958"--T.p. verso.
ISBN:
0720611733
OCLC:
187769763

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