Vatican Swindle
By André Gide · Running time 07:37:18 · Humorous Fiction, Religious Fiction
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Set during the pontificate of Leo XIII, this book is a blend of humor and tragedy in the quest for understanding one’s place in a world marked by both enlightenment and faith. Could the Pope have been secretly abducted? 5 books come together, centered around group of fraudsters, who convince their wealthy victims that the pontiff has been imprisoned by freemasons. Farce, romance, even murder, this book is a send-up of conventional morality, most clearly in the character of Lafcadio, an adolescent boy who kills a stranger for no reason except personal curiosity about the nature of morality, and
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