Strait Gate by Andre Gide (190 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. Jerome Palissier spends many summers at his uncle's house in the Normandy countryside. There he falls in love with his cousin Alissa and she with him. But gradually she 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.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Jerome Palissier spends many summers at his uncle's house in the Normandy countryside. There he falls in love with his cousin Alissa and she with him. But gradually she 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.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 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 aestheticism taken to extremes, Strait is the Gate is a novel of haunting beauty that stimulates the mind and the emotions. Jerome Palissier spends many summers at his uncle's house in the Normandy countryside. There he falls in love with his cousin Alissa and she with him. But gradually she 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: New. 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 aestheticism taken to extremes, Strait is the Gate is a novel of haunting beauty that stimulates the mind and the emotions.…

Condition: Very Good. : En 'Strait Is the Gate', André Gide explora el fracaso del amor frente a la estrechez de la filosofía moral del protestantismo. La novela narra la historia de dos primos que, habiéndose amado desde la infancia, ven su devoción transformarse en un amor que los avergüenza en la presencia del otro. A través de una prosa delicada y reflexiva, Gide examina temas de sacrificio, pureza y las consecuencias de reprimir los deseos en nombre de la virtud. EAN: 9780140180442 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Literatura y Ficción Título: Strait Is the Gate Autor: André Gide Editorial: Penguin Books Ltd Idioma: en Páginas: 128 Formato: tapa blanda.…

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Gide, André, 1869-1951. Strait is the gate. Translated from the French by Dorothy Bussy. Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 2004, 148pp., PAPERBACK, cover price $13.95, very good copy but with some light foxing around page edges. Tusk Ivories series. 9781585676057 ISBN 1585676055.

Condition: Very Good. reprint. Paperback, VG. 128pp, pages a little tanned, edges rubbed & spine slightly sunned. A story of young love, blighted & turned to tragedy by religion. André Gide [ 1869 - 1951 ] French writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947. 150 grams.

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