The Delinquents - Anthony Bloomfield

 

ICON BOOKS F7

FIRST PRINTING 1962

LONDON, U.K.

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY HOGARTH PRESS 1958

Juvenile (and adult) delinquents in a seedy seaside town. The delinquents include not only two young girls, Penny and Belle, but their evil and amoral mothers- and, most deeply involved of all, a local magistrate.

"A study in the fascinations of corruption." 

-The Times

"Mr. Bloomfield produces great tension; he is a genuine storyteller." 

-Daily Telegraph

"...few writers can make the every day and the seedy so real, so strange, so menacing." 

-V.S. Naipaul

Opium - Jean Cocteau

ICON BOOKS B1

NO DATE

LONDON, UK

FIRST PUBLISHED IN HARDBACK BY PETER OWEN LTD 1957

COVER DESIGN BY FISK

ABOUT THIS BOOK

In December 1928, Jean Cocteau entered a clinic near Paris hoping for a cure from opium addiction. He remained there some months and during this time wrote the main body of notes which form this book.

Cocteau himself describes OPIUM as the Diary of a Cure; but it is not a diary in the conventional sense for this is no mere record of day-to-day treatment, and it is  as different in style as it is in content from that other famous testimony of an opium eater by Thomas De Quincy.

Here then is an account-totally free from self-pity-by one of the greatest of living writers, of a deeply harrowing experience.

This first paperback edition of OPIUM includes many drawings that Cocteau made during his treatment which convey, even more graphically than the text. the splendours and miseries of drug addiction.