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Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is one of the most entertaining reading experiences in any language and arguably the finest single work of the twentieth century. Since the original prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the original French. Now Viking makes Proust's masterpiece accessible to a whole new generation, beginning with Lydia Davis's new translation of the first volume,... (more)

In Search of Lost Time: Book 3

The Guermantes Way

by Marcel Proust

After the relative intimacy of the first two volumes of In Search of Lost Time , The Guermantes Way 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 salute to and a devastating satire of a time, place, and culture, The Guermantes Way defines the great... (more)

In Search of Lost Time: Book 4

Sodom and Gomorrah

or, Cities of the Plain

by Marcel Proust

Sodom and Gomorrah—now in a superb translation by John Sturrock—takes up the theme of homosexual love, male and female, and dwells on how destructive sexual jealousy can be for those who suffer it. Proust’s novel is also an unforgiving analysis of both the decadent high society of Paris and the rise of a philistine bourgeoisie that is on the way to supplanting it. Characters who had lesser roles in earlier... (more)

In Search of Lost Time: Book 2

Within a Budding Grove

or, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

by Marcel Proust

First published in 1919, Within a Budding Grove was awarded the Prix Goncourt, bringing the author immediate fame. 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... (more)

How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel

How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel

by Alain de Botton

Alain de Botton combines two unlikely genres--literary biography and self-help manual--in the hilarious and unexpectedly practical How Proust Can Change Your Life. Who would have thought that Marcel Proust, one of the most important writers of our century, could provide us with such a rich source of insight into how best to live life? Proust understood that the essence and value of life was the sum of its... (more)

The Letters of Marcel Proust

by Marcel Proust

This wonderful collection of Marcel Proust's Letters, selected and translated by Mina Curtiss, is both a revelatory introduction to the great writer and a treasure trove for those readers more familiar with "A la Recherche du Temps Perdu". Mina Curtiss especially chose them as apt illustrations of Proust's growing sensibility and intellectual power during the gestation of the novel. Indeed, many of the... (more)

In Search of Lost Time

The Captive; The Fugitive

by Marcel Proust

The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and The Fugitive (1925). In The Captive , Proust’s narrator describes living in his mother’s Paris apartment with his lover, Albertine, and subsequently falling out of love with her. In The Fugitive , the narrator loses Albertine forever. Rich with irony, The Captive and The Fugitive inspire meditations on desire,... (more)

Marcel Proust: On Art and Literature 1896-1919

Marcel Proust: On Art and Literature 1896-1919

by Marcel Proust

Text: English (translation) Original Language: French

Marcel Proust: A Penguin Lives Biography (Penguin Lives)

Marcel Proust: A Penguin Lives Biography (Penguin Lives)

by Edmund White

Marcel Proust, now enjoying a major renaissance, has at last found a biographer who himself once produced the "finest French novel written in English" (The Nation). For Edmund White--author of an award-winning biography of Jean Genet and of the classic gay novel A Boy's Own Story, and known for his own haunting evocation of times past--this portrait is the exquisite expression of a lifetime spent contemplating... (more)

In Search of Lost Time: Book 7

Time Regained

or, The Past Recaptured, or, Finding Time Again

by Marcel Proust, Terence Kilmartin, D. J. Enright

Time Regained , the final volume of In Search of Lost Time , begins in the bleak and uncertain years of World War I. Years later, after the war’s end, Proust’s narrator returns to Paris and reflects on time, reality, jealousy, artistic creation, and the raw material of literature—his past life. This Modern Library edition also includes the indispensable Guide to Proust , compiled by Terence Kilmartin and revised... (more)

Remembrance of Things Past

The Captive

by Marcel Proust

The gift-boxed set of the three paperbacks.

Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove (Vintage)

Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove (Vintage)

by Marcel Proust

One of the great works of Western literature, now in the new definitive French Pleiade edition translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin. Volume one includes SWANN'S WAY and WITHIN A BUDDING GROVE.

REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST: VOLUME ONE, SWANN'S WAY, WITHIN A BUDDING GROVE.Marcel. Proust

REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST: VOLUME ONE, SWANN'S WAY, WITHIN A BUDDING GROVE.

by Marcel. Proust

by Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) spent the last fourteen years of his life writing A la recherche du temps perdu. It is an intimate epic, an excavation of the self, and a comedy of manners by turns and all at once. Proust is the twentieth century's Dante, presenting us with a unique, unsettling picture of ourselves as jealous lovers and unmitigated snobs, frittering our lives away, with only the hope of art as a possible... (more)

In Search of Lost Time: Swann's Way

by Marcel Proust

Remembrance of Things Past (Volume 1)

Swann's Way; Within a Budding Grove; The Guermantes Way

by Marcel Proust

The gift-boxed set of the three paperbacks.

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Swann's Way

by Marcel Proust

The Guermantes Way

by Marcel Proust

Sodom and Gomorrah

or, Cities of the Plain

by Marcel Proust

Within a Budding Grove

or, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

by Marcel Proust

How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel

by Alain de Botton

The Letters of Marcel Proust

by Marcel Proust

The Captive; The Fugitive

by Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust: On Art and Literature 1896-1919

by Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust: A Penguin Lives Biography (Penguin Lives)

by Edmund White

Time Regained

or, The Past Recaptured, or, Finding Time Again

by Marcel Proust, Terence Kilmartin, D. J. Enright

The Captive

by Marcel Proust

Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove (Vintage)

by Marcel Proust

REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST: VOLUME ONE, SWANN'S WAY, WITHIN A BUDDING GROVE.

by Marcel. Proust

by Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time: Swann's Way

by Marcel Proust

Remembrance of Things Past (Volume 1)

Swann's Way; Within a Budding Grove; The Guermantes Way

by Marcel Proust