chocolate at Prévost's on her way home. Swann set off at once for Prévost's, but every few yards his carriage was held up by others, or by people crossing the street, loathsome obstacles that he would gladly have crushed beneath his ...
The narrator interrupts reminiscences about his childhood spent in late-nineteenth-century France to recall the affair which a friend of the family carried on with young Odette de Crecy.
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 ...
The first volume of the work that established Proust as one of the finest voices of the modern age—satirical, skeptical, confiding, and endlessly varied in his response to the human condition—Swann's Way also stands on its own as a ...
The recollection of the narrato'.s love for Swann's daughter Gilberte leads to an account of Swann's passion for Odette and the rise of the nouveaux riches Verdurins.For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised ...
"Widely recognized as the major novel of the twentieth century" -Harold Bloom ; Literary Critic Swann's Way is the first volume of seven of the series In Search of Lost Time written by Marcel Proust (1871-1922).
How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About Swann's Way by Marcel Proust Swann's Way is the first volume of the famous masterpiece In Search of Lost Time.
Swann's Way: Large Print by Marcel Proust Marcel Proust, known as Marcel Proust, was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental novel À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time; earlier rendered as ...
In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1 Marcel Proust William C. Carter. in translation is the double entendre of “temps perdu” as “wasted” or “lost” time. In his book on translation, Is That a Fish in Your Ear: Translation and the Meaning ...
The definitive translation of the bestselling and best-known book of Marcel Proust's sequence Remembrance of Things Past.
It is his most prominent work, known both for its length and its theme of involuntary memory; the most famous example of this is the "episode of the madeleine," which occurs early in the first volume.
The novel began to take shape in 1909. Proust continued to work on it until his final illness in the autumn of 1922 forced him to break off.
We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public.
How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About Swann's Way by Marcel Proust Swann's Way is the first volume of the famous masterpiece In Search of Lost Time.
The first volume of Proust's seven-part novel In Search of Lost Time, also known as Remembrance of Things Past, Swann's Way is the auspicious beginning of Proust's most prominent work....
The first volume of Marcel Proust’s monumental masterpiece—in the classic Scott Moncrieff–Kilmartin translation—is not only a perfect introduction to a literary landmark, it also stands on its own as one of the most sensitive ...
In its centennial year, Marcel Proust's masterpiece of literary imagination is available in a Norton Critical Edition.
Never has what goes on behind the red velour curtain--the give-and-take between the Supreme Court Justices in an important case--been described in such detail. Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education...
With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Marcel Proust’s Swann’s Way is a classic work of French literature reimagined for modern readers.
Marcel Proust's classic novel Swann's Way is replete with recollections of the distant past. This is the first volume of the acclaimed series: Remembrance of Things Past, also named In Search of Lost Time.