Strait is the Gate

1924, the first UK edition of Andre Gide's classic novel

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Printing Details

First UK edition. Hardback, bound in red cloth with gilt titling to spine. 19 × 13cm, 250pp.

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

Good condition. There is a slight lean to the spine and some tanning to the endpapers but otherwise the book remains in strong readable condition.

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