Marcel Proust

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Massachusetts

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 renderings of childhood in fiction and a brilliant meditation on the recreation of the past through art and memory.

Swann's Way is the most frequently read part of Proust's epic novel, Remembrance of Things Past (also known as In Search of Lost Time). It introduces subjects that resonate throughout the entire work, including the narrator's love for Swann's daughter Gilberte, Swann's jealous passion for Odette, and the rise of the nouveaux-riches Verdurins. Proust's narrator vividly recalls his childhood in Paris and Combray, most famously in a fraught evocation of his mother's good-night kiss and in the iconic scene where the taste of a madeleine dipped in tea brings back a flood of memory.

Swann's Way

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California

New York

Both a psychological self-portrait and a profound meditation upon the artistic process, Proust's seven-part masterpiece "In Search of Lost Time" changed the course of 20th-century literature. "Swann's Way, " the first volume, introduces the novel's major themes and the narrator, a sensitive man drawn in his youth to fashionable society. Its focus then shifts to Charles Swann, a wealthy connoisseur who moves in high-society circles in nineteenth-century Paris and a victim of an agonizing romance. This masterly evocation of French society and its rendering of a search for a transcendental reality independent of time, ranks as a landmark of world literature. Unabridged reprint of the classic 1922 edition.

Texas

Un Amour de Swann

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Price sticker on back, otherwise perfect condition 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

In these inspiring essays about why people read, Proust explores all the pleasures and trials that readers take from books and the joys of losing oneself in literature.

Days of Reading

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

District of Columbia

In its centennial year, Marcel Proust's masterpiece of literary imagination is available in a Norton Critical Edition.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

1932 Hardcover

The Past Recaptured

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Slight wear on cover but otherwise in great condition 

The Witty Novella That's the Perfect Introduction to Proust

A stunning deluxe edition of the stand-alone novella from Proust’s masterpiece—an intoxicatingly witty story of infatuation and jealousy—delivers the most memorable reading experience A new translation commemorating a century since the monumental masterpiece was first published in English—and since Proust died—Swann in Love is a sublimely witty and poignant story of the illusions of love and desire. Full of the rich social satire and penetrating insight that distinguish Proust’s style, it is the perfect introduction to one of the world’s great novelists. When Charles Swann first lays eyes on Odette de Crécy, her beauty leaves him indifferent. Their paths continue to cross in the drawing rooms and theatres of Parisian high society, and the seeds of desire in Swann begin to flourish. What follows is a journey through self-delusion, jealousy and delirious fantasy, which will take Swann far from the sedate comfort of his society life.

Swann in Love, Deluxe Edition

Old xopy but still good condition. Three titles. 

Swann's Way
Within a Budding Grove
The Guermantes Way

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Nebraska

3 Titles 

Remembrance Of Things Past

Published 1954, Heritage Press Collector’s Edition, illustrated. No slipcase.

New Jersey

Huge Hardcover (6 to 8 lbs)

Remembrance of things past volume 1 and  2

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North Carolina

Du côté de chez Swann

Crossposted. Penguin clothbound classics. Remembrance of Things Past Volume 1-3. Complete set. If you want individual ones, I have a separate listing for each one.

ISBN:
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Mammoth Hardcover (8 to 10 lbs)

Remembrance of Things Past Volume 1-3. Penguin clothbound classics.

Slight discoloration on top of books near the spine.

Mammoth Paperback (8 to 10 lbs)

Louisiana

Remembrance of Things Past : 3 volume Paper back set

Stephane Heuet

Joe Johnson

Stanislas Brezet

Ex-library. Catalog markers. Light shelf wear on jacket. Pages crisp and clean. No dog ears or scribbles. Sharp colors. Light thumb traffic. Please see photos for reference.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Ohio

Within a Budding Grove

An adaptation of the seven books of Proust's masterpiece in graphic novel format, which explores themes of love, art, sexuality, memory, and time in late nineteenth-century France.

Remembrance of Things Past

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Terence Kilmartin

D. J. Enright

Richard Howard

C. K. Scott Moncrieff

In Swann’s Way, the themes of Proust’s masterpiece are introduced, and the narrator’s childhood in Paris and Combray is recalled, most memorably in the evocation of the famous maternal good-night kiss. The recollection of the narrator’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 the late Terence Kilmartin’s acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieff’s translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of Á la recherché du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989).

In Search of Lost Time Volume I Swann's Way

Joanna Kilmartin

Andreas Mayor

Mississippi

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. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartin’s acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieff’s translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of Á la recherché du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989).

In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained

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Ian Patterson

Marcel Proust In Search of Lost Time, paperback.

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. As the great story unfolds from its magical opening scenes to its devastating end, it is the Penguin Proust that makes Proust accessible to a new generation. Each book is translated by a different, superb translator working under the general editorship of Professor Christopher Prendergast, University of Cambridge.

Modern Classics: in Search of Lost Time Volume 6 - Finding Time Again

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Pennsylvania

In Search of Lost Time Volume V 

Marcel recounts his complicated relationship with Albertine, the events that lead to their separation, and his retreat to Venice.

The Captive and the Fugitive

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Lydia Davis

Nice used book. Clean, unmarked text with very nice cover. 

In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

The second installment of French author Marcel Proust's autobiographical novel, in which the narrator focuses on his obsessive love affair with a woman named Albertine.

In Search of Lost Time Volume II Within a Budding Grove

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In the standard English translation of the third volume, first published in 1920, of the classic French novel, the narrator is introduced to the characters of Parisian high society thanks to the Duc and Duchesse de Guermantes.

In Search of Lost Time Volume III the Guermantes Way

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Stéphane Heuet

Arthur Goldhammer

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Arizona

A Graphic Novel

New York Times Bestseller Whether you are looking to brush up or sample for the first time, this graphic adaptation of In Search of Lost Time is the perfect introduction to Proust's masterpiece. "Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth," wrote Graham Greene. "For those who began to write at the end of the twenties or the beginning of the thirties, there were two great inescapable influences: Proust and Freud, who are mutually complementary." With its sweeping digressions into the past and reflections on the nature of memory, Proust's oceanic novel In Search of Lost Time looms over twentieth-century literature as one of the greatest, yet most endlessly challenging literary experiences. Influencing writers like Virginia Woolf and James Joyce, and even anticipating Albert Einstein in its philosophical explorations of space and time, In Search of Lost Time is a monumental achievement and a virtual rite of passage for any serious lover of literature. Now, in what renowned translator Arthur Goldhammer says might be "likened to a piano reduction of an orchestral score," the French illustrator Stéphane Heuet re-presents Proust in graphic form for anyone who has always dreamed of reading him but was put off by the sheer magnitude of the undertaking. This graphic adaptation reveals the fundamental architecture of Proust’s work while displaying a remarkable fidelity to his language as well as the novel's themes of time, art, and the elusiveness of memory. As Goldhammer writes in his introduction, the compression required by this kind of adaptation As Goldhammer writes in his introduction, "the reader new to Proust must attend closely, even in this compressed rendering, to the novel's circling rhythms and abrupt cross-cuts between different places and times. But this necessary attentiveness is abetted and facilitated by the compactness of the graphic format.” In this first volume, Swann's Way, the narrator Marcel, an aspiring writer, recalls his childhood when—in a now immortal moment in literature—the taste of a madeleine cake dipped in tea unleashes a torrent of memories about his family’s country home in the town of Combray. Here, Heuet and Goldhammer use Proust's own famously rich and labyrinthine sentences and discerning observations to render Combray like never before. From the water lillies of the Vivonne to the steeple and stained glass of the town church, Proust's language provides the blueprint for Heuet's illustrations. Heuet and Goldhammer also capture Proust's humor, wit, and sometimes scathing portrayals of Combray's many memorable inhabitants, like the lovelorn Charles Swann and the object of his affection and torment, Odette de Crécy; Swann's daughter Gilberte; local aristocrat the Duchesse de Guermantes; the narrator's uncle Adolphe; and the hypochondriac Aunt Léonie. Including a Proust family tree, a glossary of terms, and a map of Paris, this graphic adaptation is a surprising and useful companion piece to Proust’s masterpiece for both the initiated and those seeking an introduction.

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