Description
From the French intellectual, novelist, essayist, and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century: the first volume of Proust’s monumental achievement Remembrance of Things Past, collecting Swann’s Way and Within a Budding Grove.
In C. K. Scott Moncrieff’s heralded original English translation, as revised by Terence Kilmartin based on the definitive French Pléiade edition.Marcel Proust’s masterpiece is one of the towering literary works of the twentieth century. Relating its narrator’s experiences in Belle Epoque France as he grows up, falls in love, and lives through the First World War, it has mesmerized generations of readers with its profound reflections on art, time, and memory.
Binding Type: Paperback
Contributors: Marcel Proust,C. K. Scott Moncrieff (Translator),Terence Kilmartin (Translator)
Published: 08/12/1982
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780394711829
Pages: 1056
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 2.10″ H x 7.80″ L x 5.20″ W
About the Author
MARCEL PROUST was born in 1871 in Auteuil, near Paris, France. His seven-volume novel, À la recherche du temps perdu (known in English as In Search of Lost Time), which explores themes of memory, became one of the most famous and influential works of twentieth-century literature. Proust continued to work on the novel until his death in 1922.
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