Jean Cocteau

Through her great capacity to love, a kind and beautiful maid releases a handsome prince from the spell which has made him an ugly beast.

Presents the texts of six dramatic works by the French master of literature, including Orpheus, Bacchus, and The Eiffel Tower Wedding Party.

It ia Bengali translation of Cocteau's famous poem.

Le Livre Blanc, a "white paper" on homosexual love, was first published anonymously in France by Cocteau's contemporary Maurice Sachs and was at once decried as by the critics as obscene. It is now possible to issue it under Cocteau's name. 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 young man's self-deceptive attempts to find fulfilment, first through women and then by way of the church, are movingly conveyed; the book ends with a strong plea for male homosexuality to be accepted without censure. The book is fully illustrated and includes many woodcuts by the author.

Detective Chief Inspector C.D. Sloan #22 Josephine Short was a woman with a secret or two, some that she tried to carry to her grave. When her great-nephew's wife, Janet Wakefield, gets a call from the Berebury Nursing Home, she's somewhat taken aback. Not only is she surprised to hear that her husband's estranged great-aunt has passed away, but she's stunned to learn that this great-aunt, Josephine Short, had been living nearby for years without a word. But the surprises don't stop there. Sure that her husband Bill was the last of Josepine's close family, Janet is once again stunned when a handsome young man approaches her at the funeral and introduces himself as Josephine's grandson. She is particularly stunned since there has been no word in the family of a son, much less a grandson. Meanwhile, Detective Chief Inspector Sloan and his less-than-helpful sidekick Detective Constable Crosby find themselves assigned two rather puzzling cases. First, there’s the young woman’s body which has been discovered in the River Alm. And then there’s the mysterious break-in at the Berebury Nursing Home. To be precise, it’s Josephine Short’s room at the nursing home that’s been entered, although nothing seems to be missing. What could the intruder have been after? It becomes apparent to Sloan and Crosby that the two cases are connected—but who can the killer be?

498 p. : 24 cm

Jean Cocteau, French poet, painter, fimmaker, gives us a lyrical evocation of his childhood and of Belle Epoque France.