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Strait is the Gate (French: La Porte Étroite) is a 1909 French novel written by André Gide. It was translated into English by Dorothy Bussy. It probes the complexities and terrors of adolescence and growing up.
Aug 2, 2022 · Strait Is The Gate by Andre Gide. Publication date 1924 Collection internetarchivebooks Contributor Internet Archive Language English Item Size 478.1M . Notes. Cut-off text on some pages due to tight binding. Addeddate 2022-08-02 00:02:24 Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0003 Boxid IA40620612 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ...
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Strait Is the Gate, tale by André Gide, published in 1909 as La Porte étroite. It is one of the first of his works to treat the problems of human relationships. The work contrasts the yearning toward asceticism and self-sacrifice with the need for sensual exploration as a young woman struggles with.
Complete summary of Andre Gide's Strait Is the Gate. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Strait Is the Gate.
A landmark in world literature, Strait is the Gate describes a love affair between an acutely sensitive boy growing up in Paris and his cousin from the Normandy countryside that erupts into a soul-endangering passion.
Strait Is the Gate (La Porte étroite) explores and rejects the opposite possibility—that the summit of human achievement lies in the renunciation of all earthly joys. It is the story of Jerome, told 13 years later, and of his love as a young adolescent for his cousin Alissa, who turns him down, wastes away, and finally dies.
"Strait is the Gate", first published in 1909 in France as "La Porte etroite", is a novel about the failure of love in the face of the narrowness of the moral...
"Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it," the pastor preaches to Alissa and Jerome in a crucial scene.
Strait is the Gate is the tragic tale of a deeply damaged young woman who convinces herself that she is underserving of love, and a young man who despite his best efforts is unable to persuade her otherwise.
- Andre Gide
Dec 28, 2004 · Strait is the Gate. Andre Gide. Harry N. Abrams, Dec 28, 2004- Fiction- 111 pages. A landmark in world literature, Strait is the Gait describes a love affair-between an acutely...
