{"product_id":"lafcadios-adventures-paperback","title":"Lafcadio's Adventures - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAndre Gide\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePassing with cinematographic speed across the capitals of Europe, Nobel laureate Andr  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. \u003c\/p\u003e\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.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePassing with cinematographic speed across the capitals of Europe, Nobel laureate Andre Gide's Lafcadio's Adventures is a brilliantly sly satire and one of the clearest articulations of his greatest theme: the unmotivated crime. \u003cbr\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 5.2 x 7.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 13, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47255603773689,"sku":"9780375713385","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/LYhasOPfp29780375713385.webp?v=1768725494","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/lafcadios-adventures-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}