Lafcadio's Adventures
Author | : André Gide |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1925 |
ISBN-10 | : 0394700961 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780394700960 |
Rating | : 4/5 (960 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Lafcadio's Adventures by : André Gide
Download or read book Lafcadio's Adventures written by André Gide and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1925 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When 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 clothes, 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.