André Gide

M. Gide's Study of Mr. Oscar Wilde (perhaps the best account yet written of the poet's latter days) appeared first in L'Ermitage, a monthly literary review, in June, 1902. It was afterwards reprinted with some few slight alterations in a volume of critical essays, entitled Prétextes, by M. Gide. It is now published in English for the first time, by special arrangement with the author. (Excerpt: Note)

Construit avec minutie, ce roman multiplie les personnages, points de vue narratifs et intrigues secondaires diverses autour d'une histoire centrale. Par la liberté de l'écriture et la multiplicité des angles de vue, Gide se détache de la tradition littéraire du roman linéaire. À travers le personnage d'Édouard il montre les limites de la prétention du roman à reproduire le monde réel et ouvre ainsi la voie à la recherche plus large d'une...

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 the time of his death in 1951, having won the Nobel Prize in Literature only four years prior, André Gide was considered one of the most important literary...

"A translation of Gide's classic psychological novel depicting the gradual degeneration of an idealistic young scholar." --

An adventure story about the men who risked their lives flying the first commercial air mail routes in the early 1930's.

A theatrical adaptation of Franz Kafka's novel The Trial, in which a man is arrested one morning for an unspecified crime and is plunged into the terrifying world of a monstrous legal system in which he is condemned without ever knowing the charge against him. --www.iblist.com.