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Corydon by Andre Gide
Category: Fiction
First published nearly one hundred years ago, Andre Gide s masterpiece, translated from the original French by Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Howard, draws from the disciplines of biology, philosophy, and history to support the author s assertion that homosexuality is a natural human trait At the time of ...Show more
Counterfeiters by GIDE ANDRE
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage
A young artist pursues a search for knowledge through the treatment of homosexuality and the collapse of morality in middle class France.
FRUITS OF THE EARTH by GIDE ANDRE
Category: Fiction
The author wrote this work when he was suffering from tuberculosis. Addressed to the reader, it is a hymn to the pleasures of life that Gide came so close to losing: travel, touch, hearing, smell, sight and, above all, taste. During the author's travels, he meets Menalcas, a caricature of Oscar Wilde, w ...Show more
If it Die: An Autobiography by Andre Gide
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Vintage International Ser.
This is the major autobiographical statement from Nobel laureate Andre Gide. In the events and musings recorded here we find the seeds of those themes that obsessed him throughout his career and imbued his classic novels with such power. Gide led a life of uncompromising self-scrutiny, and his literary ...Show more
Marshlands by Andre Gide
Category: Fiction
A slim but powerful work of metafiction by a Nobel Prize-winning French writer and intellectual. Andr Gide is the inventor of modern metafiction and of autofiction, and his short novel Marshlands shows him handling both forms with a deft and delightful touch. The protagonist of Marshlands is a write ...Show more
Strait Is The Gate by Gide Andre
Category: Fiction | Series: Tusk Ivories Ser.
"Strait is the Gate", first published in 1909 in France as "La Porte etroite", is a novel about the failure of love in the face of the narrowness of the moral philosophy of Protestantism. --- Andr Gide (1869 - 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. Gide's career s ...Show more
Strait Is the Gate by Andre Gide
Category: Fiction
Jerome Palissier spends many summers at his uncle's house in the Normandy countryside. There he falls in love with his cousin Alissa and she with him. But gradually she becomes convinced that Jerome's love for her is endangering his soul. In the interests of his salvation, she decides to suppress everyt ...Show more
The Immoralist by Andre Gide
Category: Fiction
In The Immoralist, Andre Gide presents the confessional account of a man seeking the truth of his own nature. The story's protagonist, Michel, knows nothing about love when he marries the gentle Marceline out of duty to his father. On the couple's honeymoon to Tunisia, Michel becomes very ill, and durin ...Show more
The Immoralist by Andre Gide
Category: Fiction
Michel had been a blindfold scholar until, newly married, he contracted tuberculosis. His will to recover brings self-discovery and the growing desire to rebel against his background of culture, decency and morality. But the freedom from constraints that Michel finds on his restless travels is won at gr ...Show more
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