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Days of Reading by Marcel Proust
$9.95 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: good
In these inspiring essays about why we read, Proust explores all the pleasures and trials that we take from books, as well as explaining the beauty of Ruskin and his work, and the joys of losing yourself in literature as a child. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transform ...Show more
In Search Of Lost Time Vol 1: Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
$12.95 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: In Search of Lost Time Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This is an acclaimed, fully revised edition of the Scott Moncrieff and Kilmartin translation. In the opening volume of Proust's great novel, the narrator travels backwards in time in order to tell the story of a love affair that had taken place before his own birth. Swann's jealous love for Odette provi ...Show more
In Search Of Lost Time, Vol 2: Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: In Search of Lost Time Ser.
Within a Budding Grove describes the first shoots of an astonishing love affair. When Proust's adolescent narrator travels from Paris to the sunny seaside town of Balbec he meets an intriguing set of new acquaintances who provide him with both friendship and entertainment. Most significantly of all he m ...Show more
In Search Of Lost Time, Vol 4: Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust
$36.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
This is an acclaimed, fully revised edition of the Scott Moncrieff and Kilmartin translation. In "Sodom and Gomorrah", Proust's narrator not only depicts the class tensions of a changing France at the beginning of the twentieth century but also exposes the decadence of aristocratic Parisian society and ...Show more
In Search Of Lost Time, Vol 5: The Captive & The Fugitive by Marcel Proust
$36.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: In Search of Lost Time Ser.
This is an acclaimed, fully revised edition of the Scott Moncrieff and Kilmartin translation. In the two novels - "The Captive" and "The Fugitive" - contained in this volume, Proust's narrator is living in his mother's apartment in Paris with his lover, Albertine. However, this is far from an idyllic st ...Show more
In Search Of Lost Time, Vol 6: Time Regained and A Guide to Proust by Marcel Proust
$36.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: In Search of Lost Time Ser.
Each volume contains notes, addenda and synopses, and the sixth and final volume also includes a guide to the complete work.
In Search of Lost Time: Volume 2: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower by Marcel Proust
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is a spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, and an unequalled meditation on different forms of love, charged with the narrator's memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside, and his relationships with his grandmother and the Swann family. Here Proust ...Show more
In Search of Lost Time: Volume 3: The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
After the relative intimacy of the first two volumes of In Search of Lost Time, Le Côté de Guermantes opens up a vast, dazzling landscape of fashionable Parisian life in the late nineteenth century, as the narrator enters the brilliant, shallow world of the literary and aristocratic salons. Both a salut ...Show more
In Search Of Lost Time: Volume 4 by Marcel Proust, Marcel Proust
$30.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Since the original, prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid Proust. IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME is one of the greatest, most enjoyable reading experiences in any language. As ...Show more
In Search Of Lost Time: Volume 5 by Marcel Proust, Marcel Proust
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Since the original prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid Proust. "In Search of Lost Time" is one of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language ...Show more
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
$130.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid Proust than usual, making this acclaimed novel accessible to a new generation of readers.
In Search of Lost Time #1: Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
Swann's Way is the first part of the saga In Search of Lost Time by a classic of theFrench literature Marcel Proust.Back in the day, this book confused the most sympathetic readers and critics,because at the first sight, it was an unsuccessful autobiographic novel that waschronologically complicated and ...Show more