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...
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English
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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.
6) Night flight
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Harbrace paperbound library volume HPL63
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English
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In this gripping novel, Saint-Exupéry tells about the brave men who piloted night mail planes from Patagonia, Chile, and Paraguay to Argentina in the early days of commercial aviation. Preface by André Gide. Translated by Stuart Gilbert.
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