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Days of Reading by Marcel Proust
Category: Culture | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
In these inspiring essays about why we read, Proust explores all the pleasures and trials that we take from books, as well as explaining the beauty of Ruskin and his work, and the joys of losing yourself in literature as a child. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transform ...Show more
Finding Time Again - In Search of Lost Time, Volume 7 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Marcel Proust; Ian Patterson (Editor, Introduction by, Translator, Notes by)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: In Search of Lost Time Ser.
The long-awaited final volume in the acclaimed Penguin translation of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time--one of the world's most beloved works of literature "The greatest literary work of the twentieth century."--The New York Times A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with flaps and deckle-edged p ...Show more
GUERMANTES WAY #3 IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME by PROUST MARCEL
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: In Search of Lost Time (YALE) Ser.
An authoritative new edition of the third volume in Marcel Proust's epic masterwork, In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust's monumental seven‑part novel In Search of Lost Time is considered by many to be the greatest novel of the twentieth century. This edition of volume three, The Guermantes Way, is ...Show more
Guermantes Way - In Search of Lost Time Vol.3 (Vintage Classics) by Marcel Proust
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
This is an acclaimed, fully revised edition of the Scott Moncrieff and Kilmartin translation. 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 shall ...Show more
In Search Of Lost Time Boxed Set (4 Volumes) by Marcel PROUST
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library
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 1: Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: In Search of Lost Time Ser.
This is an acclaimed, fully revised edition of the Scott Moncrieff and Kilmartin translation. In the opening volume of Proust's great novel, the narrator travels backwards in time in order to tell the story of a love affair that had taken place before his own birth. Swann's jealous love for Odette provi ...Show more
In Search Of Lost Time, Vol 2: Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: In Search of Lost Time Ser.
Within a Budding Grove describes the first shoots of an astonishing love affair. When Proust's adolescent narrator travels from Paris to the sunny seaside town of Balbec he meets an intriguing set of new acquaintances who provide him with both friendship and entertainment. Most significantly of all he m ...Show more
In Search Of Lost Time, Vol 4: Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
This is an acclaimed, fully revised edition of the Scott Moncrieff and Kilmartin translation. In "Sodom and Gomorrah", Proust's narrator not only depicts the class tensions of a changing France at the beginning of the twentieth century but also exposes the decadence of aristocratic Parisian society and ...Show more
In Search Of Lost Time, Vol 5: The Captive & The Fugitive by Marcel Proust
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: In Search of Lost Time Ser.
This is an acclaimed, fully revised edition of the Scott Moncrieff and Kilmartin translation. In the two novels - "The Captive" and "The Fugitive" - contained in this volume, Proust's narrator is living in his mother's apartment in Paris with his lover, Albertine. However, this is far from an idyllic st ...Show more
In Search Of Lost Time, Vol 6: Time Regained and A Guide to Proust by Marcel Proust
Category: Fiction | Series: In Search of Lost Time Ser.
Each volume contains notes, addenda and synopses, and the sixth and final volume also includes a guide to the complete work.
In Search Of Lost Time: Volume 2 by Marcel Proust, Marcel Proust
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is a spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, and an unequalled meditation on different forms of love, charged with the narrator's memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside, and his relationships with his grandmother and the Swann family. Here Proust ...Show more
In Search Of Lost Time: Volume 3 by Marcel Proust, Marcel Proust
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
After the relative intimacy of the first two volumes of In Search of Lost Time, Le Côté de Guermantes opens up a vast, dazzling landscape of fashionable Parisian life in the late nineteenth century, as the narrator enters the brilliant, shallow world of the literary and aristocratic salons. Both a salut ...Show more