Andre Gide combines a rich and supple imagination with a conscience that tolerates no squeamishness in the disclosure of the most personal intimacies. The unspeakable has no existence for him; his service to his own truth is constant and uncompromising.  Of the thirty distinguished volumes he has published, many of them rare and unobtainable because of their revelations, The Counterfeiters is his only novel, and he has avowed in his Journal: “Without reserve, I want to pour into it everything." The translation is complete and unexpurgated.