Summary
In 1897, while battling tuberculosis, André Gide penned Fruits of the Earth. This work, addressed directly to the reader with the opening lines, “I will teach you fervour,” is a powerful ode to the very pleasures of life Gide felt he was losing: travel, touch, hearing, smell, sight, and most importantly, taste.
During his travels, Gide encounters Menalcas, a thinly veiled caricature of Oscar Wilde, who recounts his extraordinary life. However, despite Menalcas’s brilliance, h…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099437833 |
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| ISBN-10: | 009943783X |
| Author: | Andre Gide |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 5 April 2002 |
| Weight: | 161g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 129mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Vintage classics |
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Andre Gide
Gide was born in Paris on 22 November 1869. He had an irregular and lonely upbringing. He became devoted to literature and music, and began his literary career as an essayist, moving on to poetry, biography, fiction, drama, criticism, reminiscence and translation. By 1917 he had emerged as a prophet to French youth, and his unorthodox views were a source of endless debate and attack. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. Gide died in Paris in 1951.
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