(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)Marcel Proust
1) Swann's way
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
xv, 557 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Sodom and Gomorrah (1921/22) is the fourth volume of Marcel Proust's seven-part novel In Search of Lost Time. Being the last volume that had Proust's direct involvement, Sodom and Gomorrah is a story of love, jealousy and family from a master of Modernist literature. Praised by Virginia Woolf, Vladimir Nabokov, Michael Chabon, and Graham Greene, In Search of Lost Time explores the nature of memory and time while illuminating the history of homosexuality...
Author
Pub. Date
1933
Physical Desc
428, 395 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the third volume of the celebrated novel, a writer comes into his own and learns the way of the world in Paris.
Continuing the nameless narrator's voyage through his memories after Within a Budding Grove, The Guermantes Way finds him and his family entering Parisian high society. They have moved into a stately old town house owned by the Duke and Duchess de Guermantes in the Fauborg Saint-Germain district of Paris. Daily sightings of the duchess...
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
xviii, 558 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
‘Within a Budding Grove’ (1919) is the second volume of Marcel Proust's seven-part novel In Search of Lost Time. Written while Proust was virtually confined to his bedroom from a lifelong respiratory illness, ‘Within a Budding Grove’ is a story of memory, history, family, and romance from a master of Modernist literature. Praised by Virginia Woolf, Vladimir Nabokov, Michael Chabon, and Graham Greene, In Search of Lost Time explores the nature...
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (5 hr.) : digital ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
A collection of women's literature spanning 3 centuries. All stories have been carefully chosen for their strong female characters and are full of humour, drama and insight. Some are written by great female icons, others by well-known male writers.