Strait is the Gate
$23.84
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
2 May 2001
Summary
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 falls deeply in love with his cousin Alissa and she with him. But gradually Alissa becomes convinced that Jerome’s love for her is endangering his soul. In the interests of his salvation, she decides to suppress everything that is beautiful in herself - in both mind and body.
A devastating exploration of aes…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141185248 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141185244 |
| Author: | André Gide, Dorothy Bussy |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 2 May 2001 |
| Weight: | 118g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 9mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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About The Author
André Gide
Andre Gide (1869-1951) was a French author who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947. He began his writings at the start of the symbolist movement and was most widely known for his fictional and autobiographical works. Among his best-known works are “The Counterfeiters, The Immoralist, Lafcadio’s Adventures, Strait Is the Gate,” and the “Journals.”
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