Proust on Reading
- ISBN-10
- 1843916169
- ISBN-13
- 9781843916161
- Category
- Literary Collections
- Pages
- 113
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- Hesperus Press
- Authors
- Marcel Proust, Damion Searles
Description
English translation of Sur la lecture, which was originally published in 1906 as the preface to the author's translation of Sesame and lilies, by John Ruskin.
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