# The Thief

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- Book: [The Thief](https://www.bookquiver.com/georges-darien/the-thief) ([The Thief.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/georges-darien/the-thief.md))
- Authors: [Georges Darien](https://www.bookquiver.com/georges-darien), [André Breton](https://www.bookquiver.com/andre-breton), [Jacques Houis](https://www.bookquiver.com/jacques-houis)
- Publisher: nyrb_classics
- ISBN: 978-16-8137-812-1
- Pages: 400
- Published: 2026-10-27
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Made into a 1967 film by Louis Malle and never before available in English, this classic of anarchist literature follows a once well-to-do young man forced into an itinerant life of crime. The Thief is...