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(0)André Gide
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During the 1930s, Gide briefly became a communist, or more precisely, a fellow traveller (he never formally joined the Communist Party). As a distinguished writer sympathising with the cause of communism, he was invited to tour the Soviet Union as a guest of the Soviet Union of writers. The tour disillusioned him and he subsequently became quite critical of Soviet Communism. This criticism of Communism caused him to lose socialist friends, especially...
5) Night flight
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Harbrace paperbound library volume HPL63
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English
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Fasten your seatbelt to experience the spectacle and solitude of flying high in the Andes in this novel from the author of The Little Prince.
No writer has equaled Saint-Exupéry in describing the perilous and poetic experience of flying, in submission to what he calls “those damn elemental divinities—night, day, mountain, sea and storm.” In this gripping, beautifully written novel inspired by his experience
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Two Symphonies collects two short novels by Nobel Prize winner Andre Gide. In Isabelle, a young man visits the home of an eccentric family, and falls in love with a portrait of their absent daughter. In The Pastoral Symphony, a pastor rescues a blind orphan from poverty, but an illicit love develops between them.
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