À la recherche du temps perdu Series by Marcel Proust, D.J. Enright

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  • Swann's Way (À la recherche du temps perdu #1)
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    Swann's Way (À la recherche du temps perdu #1)

    Marcel Proust

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings · published 1913

    Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is one of the most entertaining reading experiences in any language and arguably the finest novel of the twentieth century. But since its original prewar translation there has been no completely new version in English. Now, Penguin brings Proust's masterpiece to new audiences throughout the world, beginning with Lydia Davis's internationally acclaimed translation of the first volume, Swann's Way... more

  • Swann's Way (À la recherche du temps perdu #1)
    #1

    Swann's Way (À la recherche du temps perdu #1)

    Marcel Proust

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings · published 1913

    Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is one of the most entertaining reading experiences in any language and arguably the finest novel of the twentieth century. But since its original prewar translation there has been no completely new version in English. Now, Penguin brings Proust's masterpiece to new audiences throughout the world, beginning with Lydia Davis's internationally acclaimed translation of the first volume, Swann's Way... more

  • Swann in Love (À la recherche du temps perdu #1.2)
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    Swann in Love (À la recherche du temps perdu #1.2)

    Marcel Proust

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 1913

    The newest translation of the classic of French literature From the text: But at the age Swann was approaching, where one is already a little disillusioned and where he knows to be content at being in love simply for the pleasure of it, without demanding too much in return, this coming together of two hearts, if it is no longer, as it was in one's youth, the goal that love, by necessity, tends towards, it has nevertheless stayed tied to one's love by such a strong association of ideas that if... more

  • Within a Budding Grove (À la recherche du temps perdu #2)
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    Within a Budding Grove (À la recherche du temps perdu #2)

    Marcel Proust, D.J. Enright

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 1913

    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... more

  • Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove (À la recherche du temps perdu #1-2)
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    Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove (À la recherche du temps perdu #1-2)

    Marcel Proust

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 1919

    'The transmutation of sensation into sentiment, the ebb tide of memory, waves of emotion such as desire, jealousy, and artistic euphoria — this is the material of this enormous and yet singularly light and translucid work' — Vladimir NabokovOriginally rendered by C.K. Scott Moncrieff from an early and unreliable French edition, Proust’s masterpiece has now been flawlessly translated by Terence Kilmartin in this acclaimed version.

  • The Guermantes Way (À la recherche du temps perdu #3)
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    The Guermantes Way (À la recherche du temps perdu #3)

    Marcel Proust, D.J. Enright

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings · published 1920

    The "Guermantes Way," in this the third volume of In Search of Lost Time, refers to the path that leads to the Duc and Duchesse de Guermantes's chateau near Combray. It also represents the narrator's passage into the rarefied "social kaleidoscope" of the Guermantes's Paris salon, an important intellectual playground for Parisian society, where he becomes a party to the wit and manners of the Guermantes's drawing room... more

  • Remembrance of Things Past: Volume II - The Guermantes Way & Cities of the Plain (À la recherche du temps perdu #3-4)
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    Remembrance of Things Past: Volume II - The Guermantes Way & Cities of the Plain (À la recherche du temps perdu #3-4)

    Marcel Proust

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 1922

    Including THE GUERMANTES WAY and CITIES OF THE PLAIN.

  • Sodom and Gomorrah (À la recherche du temps perdu #4)
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    Sodom and Gomorrah (À la recherche du temps perdu #4)

    Marcel Proust

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings · published 1921

    'Flower and plant have no conscious will. They are shameless, exposing their genitals. And so in a sense are Proust's men and women . . . shameless. There is no question of right and wrong. Homosexuality . . . is as devoid of moral implications as the mode of fecundation of the Primula veris or the Lythrum salicoria.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------SAMUEL BECKETT The theme of Sodom and Gomorrah is sexual ambiguity... more

  • Remembrance of Things Past: Volume III - The Captive, The Fugitive, & Time Regained (À la recherche du temps perdu #5-7)
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    Remembrance of Things Past: Volume III - The Captive, The Fugitive, & Time Regained (À la recherche du temps perdu #5-7)

    Marcel Proust

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 1927

    The third and final volume includes THE CAPTIVE, THE FUGITIVE, and TIME REGAINED.

  • The Prisoner (À la recherche du temps perdu #5)
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    The Prisoner (À la recherche du temps perdu #5)

    Marcel Proust

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 1923

    The long-awaited fifth volume — representing "the very summit of Proust's art" (Slate) — in the acclaimed Penguin translation of "the greatest literary work of the twentieth century" (The New York Times)Carol Clark's acclaimed translation of The Prisoner introduces a new generation of American readers to the literary riches of Marcel Proust... more

  • The Sweet Cheat Gone (À la recherche du temps perdu #6)
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    The Sweet Cheat Gone (À la recherche du temps perdu #6)

    Marcel Proust

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 1925

    Large format paper back for easy reading. Sixth Volume of the 'In Search of Lost Time' (AKA Remembrance of things past) masterpeice of modernist literature

  • The Captive & The Fugitive (À la recherche du temps perdu #5-6)
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    The Captive & The Fugitive (À la recherche du temps perdu #5-6)

    Marcel Proust, D.J. Enright

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 1923

    The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and The Fugitive (1925). In The Captive, Proust’s narrator describes living in his mother’s Paris apartment with his lover, Albertine, and subsequently falling out of love with her. In The Fugitive, the narrator loses Albertine forever. Rich with irony, The Captive and The Fugitive inspire meditations on desire, sexual love, music, and the art of introspection... more

  • Time Regained (À la recherche du temps perdu #7)
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    Time Regained (À la recherche du temps perdu #7)

    Marcel Proust, D.J. Enright

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings · published 1927

    Time Regained, the final volume of In Search of Lost Time, begins in the bleak and uncertain years of World War I. Years later, after the war’s end, Proust’s narrator returns to Paris and reflects on time, reality, jealousy, artistic creation, and the raw material of literature—his past life. This Modern Library edition also includes the indispensable Guide to Proust, compiled by Terence Kilmartin and revised by Joanna Kilmartin.For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J... more

  • In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu #1-7)
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    In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu #1-7)

    Marcel Proust

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings · published 1927

    On the surface a traditional "Bildungsroman" describing the narrator’s journey of self-discovery, this huge and complex book is also a panoramic and richly comic portrait of France in the author’s lifetime, and a profound meditation on the nature of art, love, time, memory and death... more

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