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The Immoralist
'To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom' - André Gide Michel had been a blindfold scholar until, newly married, he …
The Journals of André Gide, 1889-1949; 1
The Counterfeiters
'It's only after our death that we shall really be able to hear' The measured tone of hopeless nihilism that pervades The Counterfeiters quickly shatters any image of André Gide as …
Southern Mail / Night Flight
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, an intrepid and eccentric adventurer, transferred his passion for flying to the written word by writing several classics of aviation literature, including …
Marshlands
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 …
If It Die . . .: An Autobiography
This is the major autobiographical statement from Nobel laureate Andr Gide. In the events and musings recorded here we find the seeds of those themes that obsessed him throughout …
Strait is the Gate
A delicate boy growing up in Paris, Jerome Palissier spends many summers at his uncle's house in the Normandy countryside, where the whole world seems 'steeped in azure'. There he …
Prometheus Illbound
Fruits of the Earth
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, …
Oscar Wilde
Gide, in this first English translation, defended a poet named Oscar Wilde when other poets threatened to wreck Wilde's life and attempted to show that Wilde was an honorable man. …
Monkey with a Gun
Lafcadio's Adventures
Passing with cinematographic speed across the capitals of Europe, Nobel laureate Andr Gide's Lafcadio's Adventures is a brilliantly sly satire and one of the clearest …