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  • The immoralist

    by André Gide ...
    Translated by Dorothy Bussy ...
    I present this book for what it is worth—a fruit filled with bitter ashes, like those colocinths of the desert that grow in a parched and burning soil. All they can offer to your thirst is a still more cruel fierceness—yet lying on the golden sand they are not without a beauty of their own.If I had held my hero up as an example, it must be admitted that my success would have been small. The few ... Read more

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  • The Counterfeiters

    A Novel

    by Andre Gide ...
    Series series Vintage International
    A young artist pursues a search for knowledge through the treatment of homosexuality and the collapse of morality in middle class France. ... Read more

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  • The Immoralist

    by Andre Gide ...
    Series series Vintage International
    First published in 1902 and immediately assailed for its themes of omnisexual abandon and perverse aestheticism, The Immoralist is the novel that launced André Gide's reputation as one of France's most audacious literary stylists, a groundbreaking work that opens the door onto a universe of unfettered impulse whose possibilities still seem exhilarating and shocking.Gide's protagonist is the frail, ... Read more

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  • The Counterfeiters

    by André Gide ...
    Translated by Dorothy Bussy ...
    In The Counterfeiters (1925), André Gide constructs a daring, self-reflexive novel about adolescence, desire, moral instability, and the fabrication of identity. Interweaving multiple plotlines—family conflict, illegitimacy, homoerotic attachment, literary ambition, and a schoolboy counterfeiting ring—Gide rejects linear realism in favor of shifting perspectives and formal experimentation. The ... Read more

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  • The Immoralist

    by André Gide ...
    The Immoralist by André Gide is a profound and psychologically intense novel that explores the struggle between personal desire and moral constraint. Through the intimate portrait of a young man's inner awakening, the story examines how illness, recovery, and self-discovery can radically reshape one's understanding of identity, freedom, and responsibility. The narrative follows Michel, a scholar ... Read more

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  • If It Die

    by Andre Gide ...
    Series series Vintage International
    This is the major autobiographical statement from Nobel laureate André 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 The Immoralist and The Counterfeiters*.*Gide led a life of uncompromising self-scrutiny, and his literary works resembled moments of that life. With If It Die, Gide determined to ... Read more

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  • Prometheus Illbound

    by André Gide ...
    "Prometheus Illbound" is a satirical and symbolic reimagining of the Greek myth of Prometheus, the titan who was punished by the gods for giving fire to humanity. In this version, Prometheus is no longer tightly bound to a rock as in the traditional myth, but rather, he is loosely chained—hence the title "illbound." He is free to walk around and interact with other characters, which leads to a ... Read more

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  • Strait is the Gate

    André Gide

    by André Gide ...
    Strait is the Gate by André Gide is a profound reflection on love, sacrifice, and the quest for spiritual perfection. Published in 1909, this work focuses on the characters Alissa and Jérôme, who share mutual affection from childhood, but whose love is marked by renunciation and suffering.Through this story, Gide explores themes such as emotional repression, the conflicts between desire and ... Read more

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  • Return From The USSR

    by Andre Gide ...
    During the 1930s, Gide briefly became a communist, or more precisely, a fellow traveller (he never formally joined the Communist Party). As a distinguished writer sympathising with the cause of communism, he was invited to tour the Soviet Union as a guest of the Soviet Union of writers. The tour disillusioned him and he subsequently became quite critical of Soviet Communism. This criticism of ... Read more

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  • The Counterfeiters (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

    by André Gide, Germaine Brée ...
    Translated by Dorothy Bussy ...
    André Gide's The Counterfeiters explores complex moral and philosophical questions about personal freedom, identity, authenticity, moral responsibility, and the pursuit of truth. A novel-within-a-novel, The Counterfeiters is renowned for its innovative narrative technique. Gide employs a fragmented structure, incorporating multiple narrative threads, shifting perspectives, and experimental ... Read more

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  • The Counterfeiters

    by André Gide, Mint Editions ...
    Series series Mint Editions (Reading With Pride)
    “My novel hasn’t got a subject. Yes, I know it sounds stupid…let’s say, if you prefer it, it hasn’t got one subject…and the subject of the book, if you must have one, is just that the very struggle between what reality offers him and what he himself desires to make of it.”In a novel about a novelist writing a novel that mirrors the novel he is in, what is the reality of the story? The ... Read more

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  • Lafcadio's Adventures

    A Novel

    by Andre Gide ...
    Series series Vintage International
    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 ... Read more

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