Author : André Gide
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,5 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Criminal behavior
ISBN : 9780394700960
When Lafcadio Wluiki, a street-smart nineteen-year-old in 1890s Paris, learns that he's heir to an ailing French nobleman's fortune, he's seized by wanderlust. Traveling through Rome in expensive new clothes, he becomes entangled in a Church extortion scandal involving an imprisoned Pope, a skittish purveyor of graveyard statuary, an atheist-turned-believer on the edge of insolvency, and all manner of wastrels, swindlers, aristocrats, adventurers, and pickpockets.
Author : Andre Gide
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 16,39 MB
Release : 2003-05-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0375713387
Passing with cinematographic speed across the capitals of Europe, Nobel laureate André Gide’s Lafcadio’s Adventures is a brilliantly sly satire and one of the clearest articulations of his greatest theme: the unmotivated crime. When Lafcadio Wluiki, a street-smart nineteen-year-old in 1890s Paris, learns that he’s heir to an ailing French nobleman’s fortune, he’s seized by wanderlust. Traveling through Rome in expensive new threads, he becomes entangled in a Church extortion scandal involving an imprisoned Pope, a skittish purveyor of graveyard statuary, an atheist-turned-believer on the edge of insolvency, and all manner of wastrels, swindlers, aristocrats, adventurers, and pickpockets. With characteristic irony, Gide contrives a hilarious detective farce whereby the wrong man is apprehended, while the charmingly perverse Lafcadio—one of the most original creations in all modern fiction—goes free.
Author : Michael Sollars
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 957 pages
File Size : 39,93 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1438108362
Author : André Gide
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,64 MB
Release : 1953
Category :
ISBN : 9780141185347
The action of The Vatican Cellars takes place in the late 19th century, chiefly in Paris and Rome. This drama involves the alleged abduction of the Pope, a miraculous conversion, swindling, adultery, bastardy and murder.
Author : André Gide
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 30,59 MB
Release : 2013-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781258883805
This is a new release of the original 1925 edition.
Author : Alan Sheridan
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 25,14 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674035270
Sheridan presents a literary biography of one of the most important writers of the 20th century--an intimate portrait of the reluctantly public man, whose work was deeply and inextricably entangled with his life. 35 halftones.
Author : André Gide
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 42,96 MB
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1453244670
This work lays bare the early brilliance and philosophical conflicts of André Gide, a towering figure in French literature Nobel Prize–winning writer André Gide lays bare his adolescent psyche in this early work, first conceived and published as part of his novel The Notebooks of André Walter, completed when he was just twenty years old. This profoundly personal work draws heavily on his religious upbringing and private journals to tell the story of a young man who, like the author, pines for his forbidden love, cousin Emmanuelle. This unique portrait of Gide as a young man presents the passions and conflicts, temptations and anguish he would explore in maturity.
Author : Karen L. Taylor
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 38,37 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0816074992
French novels such as "Madame Bovary" and "The Stranger" are staples of high school and college literature courses. This work provides coverage of the French novel since its origins in the 16th century, with an emphasis on novels most commonly studied in high school and college courses in world literature and in French culture and civilization.
Author : André Gide
Publisher : Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 21,72 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Senses and sensation
ISBN : 9780099437833
During the author's travels, he meets Menalcas, a caricature of Oscar Wilde, who relates his fantastic life story. But for all his brilliance, Menalcas is only Gide's yesterday self, a discarded wraith who leaves Gide free to stop exalting the ego and embrace bodily and spiritual joy. Later Fruits of the Earth, written in 1935 during Gide' s short-lived spell of communism, reaffirms the doctrine of the earlier book. But now he sees happiness not as freedom, but a submission to heroism. In a series of 'Encounters', Gide describes a Negro tramp, a drowned child, a lunatic and other casualties of life. These reconcile him to suffering, death and religion, causing him to insist that 'today's Utopia' be tomorrow's reality'.
Author : André Gide
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 23,41 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780252070068
In 1907 Andre Gide began work on a series of Socratic dialogues on the subject of homosexuality and its place in society. These were published piecemeal, without the author's name, in private editions of twelve copies (1911) and twenty-one copies (1920) before a signed, commercial edition finally appeared in France in 1924. In his preface to the first American edition--published in 1950, the year before his death--Gide says: "Corydon remains in my opinion the most important of my books."
