Gide: 26 books

Personal recollections from André Gide on a man who profoundly influenced his work—Oscar Wilde   André Gide, a towering figure in French letters, draws upon his friendship with Oscar Wilde to sketch a compelling portrait of the tragic, doomed author, both celebrated and shunned...

Nobel Prize–winning writer André Gide marks his voyage toward self-discovery in this imaginative allegorical work   When Urien and his sailing companions begin their voyage, it is to places unknown and, perhaps, only dreamed. This allegorical masterpiece from André Gide, a key figure...

An inspiring discourse on the power of music from one of the twentieth century’s most important figures, André Gide   André Gide, one of the great intellectuals of the twentieth century and a devoted pianist, invites readers to reevaluate Frédéric Chopin as a composer “betrayed...

Most of Andre Gide's richly-varied literary output has long been available to American readers. Only one aspect of his protean career has been lacking in translation: the essays, the publication of which will go far to explain why Gide holds in France such high rank as a critic. Many of the essays...

First published nearly one hundred years ago, André 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...

This collection of reflective essays forms a “spiritual autobiography” of André Gide, a key figure of French letters   André Gide, a literary and intellectual giant of twentieth-century France, mines his memories and personal observations in this collection of essays. Gide’s...

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...

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...

This debut work lays bare the early brilliance and philosophical conflicts of André Gide, a towering figure in French literature   André Gide, one of the masters of French literature, captures the essence of the philosophical Romantic in this profoundly personal first novel, completed...

Une analyse du roman Les Faux-Monnayeurs et du Journal des faux-monnayeurs, de Gide : deux œuvres au programme du bac 2017-2018 de littérature française en Tle L.   Le roman Les Faux-monnayeurs et le Journal des faux-monnayeurs sont au programme du bac 2017-2018 de littérature française en terminale...

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...

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...

«Algunos días me parece que si tuviera a mano una buena pluma, buena tinta y buen papel, escribiría sin dificultad una obra maestra.» André Gide.En la estela de los grandes diarios íntimos del siglo XIX ?Stendhal, Vigny, Delacroix-, el Diario de André Gide, que muchos consideran su obra más...

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...