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Guermantes Way - In Search of Lost Time Vol.3 (Vintage Classics) by Marcel Proust
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Category: 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 Vol 1: Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
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Category: Classics | Series: In Search of Lost Time Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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
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Category: 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
$24.99 AUD
Category: 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
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Category: 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
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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: The Way by Swann's by Marcel Proust
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: good
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
Jealousy by Marcel Proust
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Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Vintage Minis | Reading Level: very good
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; Lydia Davis (Translator)
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Category: Biography
A charming, funny, poignant collection of twenty-three letters from Marcel Proust to his upstairs neighbour102 Boulevard Haussmann, an elegant address in Paris's eighth arrondissement.Upstairs lives Madame Williams, with her second husband and her harp. Downstairs lives Marcel Proust, trying to write In ...Show more
Marcel Proust on Chardin and Rembrandt by Marcel Proust
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Category: Visual Arts | Series: Ekphrasis | Reading Level: very good
"Only a petty mind, an artist who at most speaks and dresses as such, looks solely for people in whom he recognizes the harmonious proportions of allegorical figures. For the true artist, as for the natural scientist, every type is interesting, and even the smallest muscle has its importance." --Marcel ...Show more
Remembrance of Things Past - 3 volume set by Marcel Proust / Moncrieff
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics | Reading Level: very good
Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth century, recording its narrator's experiences as he grows up, falls in love and lives through the First World War. A profound reflection on art, time, memory, self and loss, it is often viewed as the definitive modern novel. C K Scott Mon ...Show more
Remembrance of Things Past: Volume 2 by Marcel Proust / Moncrieff
$49.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth century, recording its narrator's experiences as he grows up, falls in love and lives through the First World War. A profound reflection on art, time, memory, self and loss, it is often viewed as the definitive modern novel. C. K. Scott M ...Show more