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The Counterfeiters

André Gide

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1925
Originally in
Originally in French
Pages
Pages 380

A novelist collects material for a book about counterfeiters while, around him, Paris families conceal illegitimate sons and unhappy marriages, and a schoolboy drawn into a counterfeiting gang is finally driven to shoot himself.

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The Counterfeiters, André Gide

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