The Miscreant

Jean Cocteau

Original title: Le Grand écart

earliest edition we have, 1975 P. Owen, 2003 163 pages

Peter Owen modern classics

"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,...

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D. Williams 1 printing we hold · 1986 · Brilliance Books Ltd

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Editions we hold

The miscreant edition · 2003 · P. Owen · 163 pages
The Miscreant paperback · 1986 · Brilliance Books Ltd · 172 pages · 9780946189915
The Miscreant hardcover · 1982 · Peter Owen Publishers · 164 pages · 9780720654806
Grand Ecart edition · 1977 · Howard Fertig Pub · 9780865272576
Miscreant hardcover · 1975 · Beekman Books Inc · 9780846406341

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