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In Search of Lost Time: vol. 4 by Marcel Proust
Category: Classics
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: Classics | 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
Letters to the Lady Upstairs by Marcel Proust; Lydia Davis (Translator)
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
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
Marcel Proust on Chardin and Rembrandt by Marcel Proust
Category: Art | Series: Ekphrasis
"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
Pleasures and Days by Andrew Marcel;Brown Proust
Category: Classics
Proust's only other work of fiction published in his lifetime apart from the monumental novel cycle In Search of Lost Time, Pleasures and Days takes the reader on a journey through the high-society circles of fin-de-siecle Paris, presenting the lives, loves and attitudes of a host of unforgettable chara ...Show more
Remembrance of Things Past (#1) by Marcel Proust
Category: Classics | Series: World Literature S.
Translated from the French by C.K. Scott Moncrieff. With an Introduction by Ingrid Wassenaar. 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. Pr ...Show more
Remembrance of Things Past (#2) by Marcel Proust
Category: Classics | Series: World Literature S.
Translated from the French by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Stephen Hudson 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 ce ...Show more
Remembrance of Things Past - 3 volume set by Marcel Proust / Moncrieff
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 Mon ...Show more
Remembrance of Things Past: Volume 1 by Marcel Proust
Category: Classics
One of the greatest translations of all time: Scott Moncrieff's classic version of Proust, published in three volumesProust'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 prof ...Show more
Remembrance of Things Past: Volume 2 by Marcel Proust / Moncrieff
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