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In Search of Lost Time: The Way by Swann's by Marcel Proust
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
One of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time Vol. 1: The Way by Swann's is published in a new translation from the French by Lydia Davis in Penguin Classics.The Way by Swann's is one of the great novels of childhood, depicting the imp ...Show more
In Search of Lost Time: Volume 6 - Finding Time Again by Marcel Proust, Marcel Proust
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Since the original prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid Proust. "In Search of Lost Time" is one of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language ...Show more
In Search of Lost Time: vol. 1 by Marcel Proust
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library classics
In this second volume of In Search of Lost Time, the narrator turns from the childhood reminiscences of Swann's Way to memories of his adolescence. Having gradually become indifferent to Swann's daughter Gilberte, the narrator visits the seaside resort of Balbec with his grandmother and meets a new obje ...Show more
In Search of Lost Time: vol. 2 by Marcel Proust
Category: Classic Fiction
In this second volume of In Search of Lost Time, the narrator turns from the childhood reminiscences of Swann's Way to memories of his adolescence. Having gradually become indifferent to Swann's daughter Gilberte, the narrator visits the seaside resort of Balbec with his grandmother and meets a new obje ...Show more
In Search of Lost Time: vol. 3 by Marcel Proust
Category: Classic Fiction
In The Guermantes Way Proust's narrator recalls his initiation into the dazzling world of Parisian high society. Looking back over his time in the glamorous salons of the aristocracy, he satirises this shallow world and his own youthful infatuation with it. His observations, and his experiences with his ...Show more
In Search of Lost Time: vol. 4 by Marcel Proust
Category: Classic Fiction
Marcel continues his voyage of discovery through the homosexual world, where affairs of the ageing Baron de Charlus lead to unexpected and hilarious adventures.
In The Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time #2) Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition by Marcel Proust
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is Proust's spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, charged with the narrator's memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside. At the heart of the story lie his relationships with his grandmother and with the Swann family. As a meditation on different f ...Show more
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Marcel Proust; Laura Marris (Translator); Stéphane Heuet (Adapted by, Illustrator)
Category: Graphic Novels
'Captures the essence of Proust beautifully' The Economist After the New York Times-bestselling adaptation - hailed as a 'Proust for the people' - this centenary edition of the Goncourt-winning In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower unveils the masterpiece beyond the madeleine. The defining French nov ...Show more
Jealousy by Marcel Proust
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Minis
Can we truly know the one we love? In this painfully candid book Marcel Proust looks straight into the green eye of every lover's jealous struggle. He broods on why we are driven to try and possess one another, how jealousy can outlive death, and whether we can ever reclaim those careless days of first ...Show more
Letters to the Lady Upstairs by Marcel Proust
Category: Biography
A charming, funny, poignant collection of twenty-three letters from Marcel Proust to his upstairs neighbour 102 Boulevard Haussmann, an elegant address in Paris's eighth arrondissement. Upstairs lives Madame Williams with her second husband, an American dentist, and her harp. Downstairs lives Marcel Pro ...Show more