Gide (andré) - Complete Works Of André Gide. Editions Gallimard, 1953, Paperback 15 Volumes.

GIDE (André) - Complete works of André Gide. Paris, Editions Gallimard, 1953-1959; in-8, 547 + 495 + 562 + 619 + 423 + 475 + 585 + 381 + 469 + 557 + 401 + 567 + 491 + 413 + 557 pp., paperbacks, cover with flaps. The 15 volumes. André Gide is a French writer of Protestant origin. He is in permanent conflict between his impulses, his education and his morals. He is one of the creators of the "Nouvelle Revue Française", backed by the Maison Gallimard. He is one of the first to fight against colonialism and to understand the lures represented by the USSR and fascism. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1951. Expanded edition of unpublished texts established by Louis Martin-Chauffier. Numbered copy on Bruges cloth watermarked with sheaf, each volume has a photographic portrait of the author as a frontispiece.