Non-Fiction of Gay Interest
Recollections of the Assize Court
by André Gide (trans Philip A Wilkins)
Publisher: Hutchinson & Co
London, UK

Year


 		n.d, assumed to be 1941: 1st Engl edition        first publ France: 1914
Cover / size: hardback / h 21.2 cm * w 14.5 cm / 126 pp

Dustjacket?   yes

ISBN: n/a

Arbery Ref:   000956

Condition Good

Boards (dark red with gilt lettering): wear to edges, particularly bad at top, bottom and along spine; remains of Boots library sticker; punched hole at top of spine. Front endpapers lightly marked. Rear endpapers have pencil inscriptions and remains of library sticker. Pages mottled and browning but otherwise clean.

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Gide: Recollections of the Assize Court






Content:

Equally fascinated by the judicial machine and by the the insights into the vagaries of the human soul that his experience as a juror brought him, Gide spent several weeks attending various trials on topics such as public morality infanticide and theft. In this dense and serious text, the author ponders justice and its functions, always emphasising the fragile barrier that separates criminals from honest people.

(from a French synopsis of the book)


Background / Biography:

André Gide


André Paul Guillaume Gide (22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947.


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"From the earliest days the courts of justice have fascinated me irresistibly. On my travels four things attract me above all others in a town: the public gardens, the market, the cemetery and the law courts. Now, however, I know by experience that it is one thing to hear the law administered and another to take a hand in it oneself. One can still believe in it when one is among the public, but once one is seated in the Jury-box, one recalls the words of Christ: 'Judge not'."

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