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Gide

American  
[zheed] / ʒid /

noun

  1. André (Paul Guillaume) 1869–1951, French novelist, essayist, poet, and critic: Nobel Prize 1947.


Gide British  
/ ʒid /

noun

  1. André (ɑ̃dre). 1869–1951, French novelist, dramatist, critic, diarist, and translator, noted particularly for his exploration of the conflict between self-fulfilment and conventional morality. His novels include L'Immoraliste (1902), La Porte étroite (1909), and Les Faux-Monnayeurs (1926): Nobel prize for literature 1947

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There were also books studied at school by Marcel Proust, André Gide, Christopher Isherwood, and I felt that the story they were telling was my story.

From The Guardian Jun. 8, 2019

Sellars in the projected titles spelled out much of what Gide implied, that the only solution to anything is compassion.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 19, 2019

To drive home her frustration, Sotomayor cited André Gide, a gay French novelist and critic who won the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature.

From Slate Apr. 2, 2018

His disquisitions on balletomania, his references to André Gide and A. E. Housman, his description of Chicago as “a man-city, healthy, sweaty, and sensual” — they’re all playful clues pointing to his true identity.

From New York Times Dec. 21, 2015

On one of my rare visits to school a teacher who taken an interest in me gave me a book by André Gide and asked what I had been reading.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers

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