In search of lost time
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1) Swann's way
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English
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Presents the first book of Proust's monumental work "Remembrance of Things Past", introducing such themes as the destructive force of obsessive love, the allure and the consequences of transgressive sex, and the selective eye that shapes memories.
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The second installment of French author Marcel Proust's autobiographical novel, in which the narrator focuses on his obsessive love affair with a woman named Albertine.
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...
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In search of lost time volume 3
À la recherche du temps perdu volume 1
A la recherche du temps perdu volume 3
Remembrance of things past volume 3
À la recherche du temps perdu volume 1
A la recherche du temps perdu volume 3
Remembrance of things past volume 3
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English
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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 tradition of novels that follow the initiation of a...
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In search of lost time volume 5
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Modern Library
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1999, ©1993
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English
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Marcel recounts his complicated relationship with Albertine, the events that lead to their separation, and his retreat to Venice.
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In search of lost time volume 5
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Modern Library
Pub. Date
1999, ©1993
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English
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Marcel recounts his complicated relationship with Albertine, the events that lead to their separation, and his retreat to Venice.
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The sweet cheat gone , In search of lost time volume 6
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Lost in the blacked-out streets of Paris during the First World War, Marcel stumbles into a brothel and accidentally witnesses a shocking crime involving Baron de Charlus. Later, at a reception given by the Prince de Guermates, his meditations on the passage of time lead to his determination to embark on his life's work at last.
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"The seventy-five folios and other unpublished manuscripts contains early versions of six episodes later included in Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu. Discovered in 2018 and presented here for the first time in English, the folios reveal the autobiographical extent of Proust's work and the "sacred moment" when his genius blossomed"--
