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Author | : André Gide |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : 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 |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2003-05-13 |
Genre | : 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 |
Total Pages | : 957 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1438108362 |
Author | : André Gide |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1953 |
Genre | : |
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 | : |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2013-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781258883805 |
This is a new release of the original 1925 edition.
Author | : Alan Sheridan |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 754 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : 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 |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 2012-02-14 |
Genre | : 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 |
Total Pages | : 497 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : 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 |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : 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 |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : 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."