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The book "Prometheus Illbound" is one of the most characteristic books of Andre Gide: a work of pure intelectual fantasy, where the subtle brain of the author has full play. It is the expression of the humorous side of a mind which must be ranked among the greatest of the world's literature. "The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea, " says Gide in the epilogue of "Prometheus Illbound". This is really the explanation of the whole book an...

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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

En AMYNTAS, Gide nos traslada a una Argelia idílica, lugar para el placer y la contemplación, que recorremos de la mano de una prosa fulgurante y poética, raramente igualada.

Primo e unico vero romanzo di André Gide e allo stesso tempo antiromanzo per eccellenza, "I falsari", pubblicato nel 1925, è un atto d'accusa nei confronti della letteratura per la mancanza di coraggio, per lo scarso approfondimento, per l'oscura coscienza, per essere complice nella costruzione della menzogna, dello psicologismo facile e assolutorio. Sorprendente e affascinante, diverso da qualsiasi altra cosa eppure forte di una struttura per...

¿Puede conmovernos, aún hoy, esta iniciación amorosa? Desde luego la connivencia de uno y otro partenaire nos comunica una sensación de frescura y de poesía, y el relato transmite al lector la emoción del descubrimiento erótico, el regocijo de la complicidad, la victoria del deseo y el placer compartidos.

Andre Gide's lifelong fascination with the conventions of society led naturally to a strong interest in France's judicial system. At the age of sixty Gide published "Judge Not, " a collection of writings detailing his experiences with the law as well as his thoughts on truth, justice, and judgment. Gide writes about his experience as a juror in several trials, including that of an arsonist, and he analyzes two famous crimes of his day: Marcel ...

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Unavailable for nearly a decade, Lafcadio's Adventures is Nobel laureate Andre Gide's brilliantly sly satire of the Catholic Church 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 an heir to an ailing French nobleman's fortune, he's seized by wanderlust. Traveling through Rome in slick new duds, he becomes entangled in a C...

Madeleine" is the story of a great writer's marriage, a deeply disturbing account of Andre Gide's feelings toward his beloved and long-suffering wife. It was a relationship which Gide exalted-- he termed it the central drama of his existance-- yet deliberately shrouded in mystery. This was no ordinary marriage. Madeleine Rondeaux, two years older than her cousin Andre Gide, became his wife after Gide's first visit to Algeria. In his "Journal",...

The humanist has four leading characteristics-curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and a belief in the human race-and all four are present in Gide. . . . The humanist of our age." -E. M. ForsterA Penguin ClassicIn The Immoralist, André Gide presents the confessional account of a man seeking the truth of his own nature. The story's protagonist, Michel, knows nothing about love when he marries the gentle Marceline out of duty to his fat...

New translation by David Watson, with an introduction by Gide's most recent biographer, Alan Sheridan.

This is the major autobiographical statement from Nobel laureate Andre 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 relay without sentiment or embellishment the c...