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"The Narrow Gate" depicts the swing between two hearts between earthly love and spiritual belief. Jerome and Alyssa loved each other deeply, but in order to jointly pursue a more holy spiritual goal, they had to suppress their passionate love for each other, which eventually led to the disappearance of their love. Gide once said that he had put his best stuff in "The Narrow Gate" - about the way to truly achieve happiness.

"The Bad Guy" and "The Narrow Gate" can be called the "twin gems" in Gide's novels. The reason is that the protagonists of the two works embody completely opposite and symmetrical tendencies on moral issues: the protagonist of "The Bad Guy" abandons morality in order to pursue sensual enjoyment, while the protagonist of "The Narrow Gate" refuses worldly joy and happiness in order to maintain the virtue of the perfect Spring Festival. With great courage, Gide profoundly revealed the sharp and profound contradictions in his thoughts, with his fearless love for truth, and with his keen psychological insight, he presented various problems and situations of human nature.

"The Narrow Gate" tells the story of a love tragedy that is pure and hot but infinitely poignant. Alyssa and Jerome are cousins ​​and childhood sweethearts. They spent a long but carefree childhood in the countryside of Normandy. Love gradually sprouts among boys and girls of the same age. At first, they secretly fell in love with each other, each hiding their secrets and worries. When they are deeply in love, their spirits merge and they want to become a better person for each other and cannot tolerate any imperfection. However, Alyssa saw love in other people's marriages end up becoming ordinary, and she had doubts about the end of love. What she wanted to pursue was eternal love, and she firmly believed that there was immortal love in the world, but the road to eternity was a narrow road, and the door to enter was a "narrow door" that only a few people could find...

Regardless of his wife's objections, the pastor adopted a helpless blind girl into his home. He named her Gertrude, raised her with care, enlightened her mind, and loved her more than his own children. When he finally awakened the girl's sleeping soul, emotions emerged in his heart that even he could not face directly. Until one day, the pastor accidentally discovered in the church that his eldest son, Jacques, was teaching the girl to play the piano behind his back...

Cousins ​​Alyssa and Jerome grew up together in the countryside of Normandy. Gradually, the seeds of love sprouted in them. They blend in spirit and dream of the arrival of perfect love. However, when Alyssa saw the true appearance of married life, she began to doubt all this. She wants to pursue eternal love in this world, but the door of love is actually a narrow door. After all, only a few people can find it...

After witnessing her mother's unfaithful marriage, the young girl Alyssa had deep doubts about love. Even though her childhood sweetheart Jerome was by her side, she dared not approach him. Does bravely pursuing the bright white moonlight and obtaining earthly happiness also mean accepting the frivolity of marriage? Life is not easy. Maybe there is no need to deliberately build a narrow door for yourself.

"Grain of the Earth" is a series of poetic fragments written by Gide in a lyrical way, combining traditional short poems, odes, melody and other forms after he traveled to North Africa and Italy. He senses the flowers and fruits of life with his fiery soul, and turns this sincere love into carols and poetry. This book can be described as Gide's most passionate spiritual monologue, and is regarded as "the Bible of a restless generation." Hummingbird Wencong has now joined China Publishing Group's key projects from 2016 to 2018.

Gide's diary, written from 1887 when he was fourteen until his death in 1950, is unique among all writers and artists of the twentieth century. From his diary, we can clearly see the formation of his moral values, his massive reading, the origin and experience of his writings, his homosexual proclivities and even the detailed experiences of his several sexual encounters. These contents are his minimally decorated "autobiography", making him a true artist and thinker, and another Montaigne.

"The Counterfeiter" is Gide's last and only novel. It is the product of the most mature period of his thought and art. It can be said that it represents the highest and most comprehensive achievement of Gide as a thinker and artist. Several misguided children committed the crime of using counterfeit money. They kept groping in a society with sinking morals and lost values, but they kept getting lost, growing from youth to maturity. The work combines growth, ethics, psychology, "meta-fiction" and other styles, with profound and delicate thoughts, clear and exquisite writing, broad vision, and rich life content, which is a milestone in the history of literature.

"The Immoral Man" is a strongly autobiographical novel written by Gide. It tells the story of a man who violates traditional customs and attempts to follow his own personal preferences. In the story, the protagonist Michel and his wife Marceline traveled to North Africa and unfortunately contracted tuberculosis. When Marceline took care of him, she discovered that he had no love for her and had homosexual tendencies. After returning to France, Michel meets the amoral Menard, who advises him to forget the past and indulge in sensual pleasures. His wife Marceline already knew about it, and her illness added to her heartache. She soon died of depression and died in a foreign land.

Gide's diary, written from 1887 when he was fourteen until his death in 1950, is unique among all writers and artists of the twentieth century. From his diary, we can clearly see the formation of his moral values, his massive reading, the origin and experience of his writings, his homosexual proclivities and even the detailed experiences of his several sexual encounters. These contents are his minimally decorated "autobiography", making him a true artist and thinker, and another Montaigne.

"The Narrow Gate" is a work published by Gide during his mature period of creation. It is also Gide's representative work. It describes the moral dilemma that the author encountered in real life. The work was completed in 1908, first serialized in the "New French Review" in 1909, and published in a single volume in 1909. The novel describes that the protagonist Jérôme has been in love with his cousin Alyssa since childhood. Although Alyssa also had the same feelings for Jérôme, she abided by the Puritan self-restraint and struggled in the contradiction between pursuing personal happiness and restraining abstinence. She stayed away from happiness in order to obtain happiness. Their relationship was gradually lost in self-humility. Alyssa buried her feelings deeply in her heart, and finally became ill and unfortunately died. In "The Narrow Gate", Gide pushes the mystical experience of love to the extreme, telling a love story that is pure and hot, but also contains boundless loneliness and infinite bitterness.

"Earth" is an essay by André Gide, a famous French writer in the 20th century and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. It is a classic work with lasting influence and a fascinating reading for young intellectuals. It is called "the Bible of the restless generation". The book eulogizes personal efforts and dedication, and believes that people should follow nature, pay attention to gaining strong feelings and rich experiences, constantly improve themselves, and create new people to the greatest extent.

André Gide is one of the most important French writers of the 20th century, and one of the most important figures in the history of French and even modern Western literature and thought. This set includes "The Bad Guy: The Narrow Gate", "Pastoral Symphony", "The Food of the World" and " "The Vatican Cellar", "The Counterfeiter", "The Return of the Prodigal", "If the Seed Lives", "Dostoevsky", "Gide's Travels" and "Gide's Diary", a total of 10 volumes, covering Gide's important works in novels, essays, travel notes, biographies and other subjects.

We always dream that one day we can get rid of all constraints and do whatever we want. However, when unlimited freedom is in front of us, can we really be happy? When the wings of death passed by and he recovered from his serious illness, Michelle suddenly realized the joy of life. He began to re-examine all established concepts, pursue instinctive feelings, indulge his long-suppressed desires, and run wildly in the direction of freedom... How to pursue true freedom? Where is the self? Is it to obey the rules or to indulge in desires? The masterpiece of Nobel Prize winner Gide has a strong autobiographical color. It boldly, avant-garde, and truly analyzes oneself, exploring how to place oneself under heavy constraints and pursue "real freedom"!

"The Food of the World" is a series of poetic fragments written by Gide after he traveled to North Africa and Italy, using his wanderings on the road as a clue, using a virtual goddess as the object of his conversation, describing exotic customs, expressing his feelings about life, and combining traditional short poems, odes, melody and other forms. In the book, Gide calls with passion to measure the earth with feet and expresses his true feelings with words. He despised traditional morality and advocated freedom of individual behavior. He especially emphasized people's strong feelings about nature and life, and used this feeling as spiritual food. This book can be described as Gide's own passionate spiritual monologue, and is regarded as "the Bible of a restless generation." Thirty-eight years later, Gide, who had entered his twilight years, once again wrote "New Food", once again promoting the power of "sensibility" and praising the sacred passion of life like religion.

When the pastor first met the blind girl, he saw her huddled by the fireside, "like a pile of unconscious flesh." He seemed to feel an oracle and firmly believed that it was his mission to educate and redeem the blind girl. As the two get along day and night, the pastor's education of the blind girl gradually shows results, but he himself falls step by step into a dangerous abyss... When selfish desires conflict with morality, it is difficult for us to face the evil in our own nature, and can the fragile happiness under deception be deceived by everyone, including ourselves? Gide used 22 diaries to vividly demonstrate the protagonist's psychology of wandering between morality and desire, trying to cover up, avoid, and deceive himself! With extremely artistic psychological analysis, it explores how people face the dark emotions and thoughts in their hearts. How to face yourself under the mask of hypocrisy?