Lafcadio's Adventures by Gide, Andre

Lafcadio's Adventures

Passing with cinematographic speed across the capitals of Europe, Nobel laureate Andr Gide's Lafcadio's Adventures is a...
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Author: Andre Gide
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Language: English
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Lafcadio's Adventures by Gide, Andre

Lafcadio's Adventures

€28,71

Lafcadio's Adventures

€28,71
Author: Andre Gide
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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 articulations of his greatest theme: the unmotivated crime.

When Lafcadio Wluiki, a street-smart nineteen-year-old in 1890s Paris, learns that he's heir to an ailing French nobleman's fortune, he's seized by wanderlust. Traveling through Rome in expensive new threads, he becomes entangled in a Church extortion scandal involving an imprisoned Pope, a skittish purveyor of graveyard statuary, an atheist-turned-believer on the edge of insolvency, and all manner of wastrels, swindlers, aristocrats, adventurers, and pickpockets. With characteristic irony, Gide contrives a hilarious detective farce whereby the wrong man is apprehended, while the charmingly perverse Lafcadio--one of the most original creations in all modern fiction--goes free.

Author: Andre Gide
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 05/13/2003
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 5.20h x 7.90w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780375713385

About the Author
André Gide was born in Paris in 1869 and died there in 1951. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947. His works include The Immoralist, The Counterfeiters, Strait is the Gate, the autobiography If It Die . . ., and three volumes of Journals. He also wrote plays, essays, short stories, and books of travel.

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