num_pages: 220
description: One of the most popular books of a giant of modern French literature, this is a hymn to the pleasures of life that Gide came so close to losing forever while suffering from tuberculosis -- touch, hearing, smell, sight and, more than anything, taste.
language: English
title: Fruits of the Earth
titlecomplete: Fruits of the Earth
genres: Fiction, France, Poetry, Philosophy, French Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, 19th Century, Nobel Prize
ratings_count: 2458
publisher: Penguin Classics