Five Plays by Jean Cocteau
Ten prize-winning authors each with a brand new story based on their own schooldays. Bernard Ashley, Malorie Blackman, Berlie Doherty, Paul Jennings, Margaret Mahy, Michael Morpurgo, Jenny Nimmo, Michael Rosen, Jeremy Strong and Robert Swindells. Brand new stories based on each author's own schooldays - sometimes funny, often poignant, always riveting. Written in each author's unique style and based on something that is common to every child in the country - SCHOL. Authors as below: PAUL JENINGS MICHAEL MORPURGO JEREMY STRONG BERNARD ASHLEY ROBERT SWINDELS MALORIE BLACKMAN BERLIE DOHERTY JENY NIMO MARGARET MAHY MICHAEL ROSEN Stories of running away from school; getting the strap for punishments; vindictive teachers; boys who tell porky-pies; the shy girl who could only talk through her puppet; getting expelled almost]; being an evacuee; original ways of getting out of being in the school play, as well as meeting one's own true love at school Stories that contemporary schoolchildren will relate to in sharing the triumphs and disasters of their favourite authors' schooldays.
Cocteau, Jean: - Jean Cocteau (1889-1963), a French writer, artist and film director, was one of the most influential creative figures in the Parisian avant-garde. He wrote poetry, novels, memoirs, plays, and operas and was a prolific illustrator, designer, painter and sculptor. In the second half of his fifty-year career he produced and directed groundbreaking surrealist films, most notably Blood of a Poet (1930), Beauty and the Beast (1946) and Orpheus (1949). New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael called him the progenitor of the new wave of French filmmakers. By the end of his life he had published 23 books of poems, seven novels, seven screenplays, four memoirs, overseen 21 theater productions, including plays, operas and ballets, 26 works with musicians, and 18 films.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780809007226 |
| ISBN 10 | 0809007223 |
| Title | Five Plays |
| Author | Jean Cocteau |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S. |
| Year published | 1996-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 310 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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