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PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100142437964

ISBN-139780142437964

eBay Product ID (ePID)30784984

Product Key Features

Original LanguageFrench

Book TitleSwann's Way Vol. 1 :in Search of Lost Time, Volume 1 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Number of Pages496 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2004

TopicClassics, Literary, Historical

GenreFiction

AuthorMarcel Proust

Book SeriesIn Search of Lost Time Ser.

FormatUk-B Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight18.6 Oz

Item Length8.4 in

Item Width5.6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

ReviewsIndispensable... the crucial modernist work, overtopping the books of even such giants as Joyce and Mann. (Peter Brooks, The New York Times Book Review ) A sensitive and direct translation... Lydia Davis does us a great service in bringing us back to Proust. (Claire Messud, Newsday ), Indispensable... the crucial modernist work, overtopping the books of even such giants as Joyce and Mann. (Peter Brooks, The New York Times Book Review ), Indispensable... the crucial modernist work, overtopping the books of even such giants as Joyce and Mann. (Peter Brooks, The New York Times Book Review) A sensitive and direct translation... Lydia Davis does us a great service in bringing us back to Proust. (Claire Messud, Newsday), Indispensable... the crucial modernist work, overtopping the books of even such giants as Joyce and Mann. (Peter Brooks, The New York Times Book Review), A sensitive and direct translation... Lydia Davis does us a great service in bringing us back to Proust. (Claire Messud, Newsday )

Notes byDavis, Lydia

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Series Volume Number1

Grade ToUP

Dewey Decimal843/.912

Table Of ContentSwann's WayIntroduction A Note on the Translation Suggestions for Further Reading Part I: Combray 1 2 Part II: Swann in Love Part III: Place-Names: The Name Notes Synopsis

Edition DescriptionDeluxe

SynopsisThe first volume of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, in Lydia Davis's award-winning translation 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 Classics 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 . Swann's Way is one of the preeminent novels of childhood: a sensitive boy's impressions of his family and neighbors, all brought dazzlingly back to life years later by the taste of a madeleine. It also enfolds the short novel "Swann in Love," an incomparable study of sexual jealousy that becomes a crucial part of the vast, unfolding structure of In Search of Lost Time . The first volume of the work that established Proust as one of the finest voices of the modern age--satirical, skeptical, confiding, and endlessly varied in his response to the human condition-- Swann's Way also stands on its own as a perfect rendering of a life in art, of the past recreated through memory.

LC Classification NumberPQ2631.R63 D813