{"product_id":"lafcadios-adventures-9780375713385","title":"Lafcadio's Adventures","description":"Passing with cinematographic speed across the capitals of Europe, Nobel laureate André Gide's \u003cb\u003eLafcadio's Adventures\u003c\/b\u003e is a brilliantly sly satire and one of the clearest articulations of his greatest theme: the unmotivated crime. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andre Gide\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/13\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 5.20h x 7.90w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780375713385\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAndré 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 \u003cb\u003eThe Immoralist, The Counterfeiters, Strait is the Gate\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003ethe autobiography \u003cb\u003eIf It Die . . .\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003eand three volumes of \u003cb\u003eJournals\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eHe also wrote plays, essays, short stories, and books of travel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43332953997427,"sku":"9.78038E+12","price":22.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_3f39fe65-6779-479c-9a1f-01ff1c235b90.jpg?v=1754657529","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/lafcadios-adventures-9780375713385","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}