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Great Short Stories from Pleasures of Days/ Les Plaisirs E (Book)

Marcel Proust (Author)

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Swann's Way (Book)

Marcel Proust (Author), Jessica Hische (Illustration)

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Collected Poems (Book)

Marcel Proust (Author)

A collection of works from the French novelist, essayist, critic, and poet features new translations of works that have never been published in a bound book or translated into English before.

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Swann's Way (Remembrance of Things Past, Volume One) (Book)

Marcel Proust (Author)

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On Reading (Book)

Marcel Proust (Author), John Ruskin (Author)

Reading was, for Marcel Proust, more than the pursuit of knowledge: a truly spiritual activity, it was a means of transforming and transcending the self. By reading great authors, he contends, we not only learn of great ideas, but are enriched by the fruits of the world's [...]

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Swann''s Way (Audio book)

Marcel Proust (Author), Proust Marcel (Author), Neville Jason (Reader / Narrator)

The narrator interrupts reminiscences about his childhood spent in late-nineteenth-century France to recall the affair which a friend of his family carries on with young Odette de Crecy.

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Guermantes Way (Audio book)

Marcel Proust (Author), Neville Jason (Reader / Narrator)

The Guermantes Way is the third of seven volumes of Remembrance of Things Past. The narrator penetrates the inner sanctum of Paris high society and falls in love with the fascinating Duchesse de Guermantes.

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The Captive (Audio book)

Marcel Proust (Author), Neville Jason (Reader / Narrator)

The Captive is the fifth volume of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past and the Narrator's obsessive love for Albertine makes her virtually a captive in his Paris apartment. He suspects she may be attracted to her own sex.

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Time Regained (Audio book)

Marcel Proust (Author), Proust Marcel (Author), Neville Jason (Reader / Narrator)

The narrator returns to Paris after World War I, and reflects on his past life as the raw material for literature.

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Essential Remembrance of Things Past (Audio book)

Marcel Proust (Author), Neville Jason (Reader / Narrator)

Presents an illuminating overture to the defining work of French modernism and one of the major classics of the twentieth century. This title offers an examination of the subtleties of human existence in the modern world.

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Swann's Way (Audio book)

Marcel Proust (Author)

The first volume of Marcel Proust's seven-part masterpiece In Search of Lost Time, Swann's Way introduces the novel's major themes and its narrator, then turns its focus to Charles Swann, a wealthy connoisseur who moves in high-society circles in nineteenth-century Paris [...]

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Swann's Way (Audio book)

Marcel Proust (Author)

The first volume of Marcel Proust's seven-part masterpiece In Search of Lost Time, Swann's Way introduces the novel's major themes and its narrator, then turns its focus to Charles Swann, a wealthy connoisseur who moves in high-society circles in nineteenth-century Paris [...]

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Swann's Way (Audio book)

Marcel Proust (Author)

The first volume of Marcel Proust's seven-part masterpiece In Search of Lost Time, Swann's Way introduces the novel's major themes and its narrator, then turns its focus to Charles Swann, a wealthy connoisseur who moves in high-society circles in nineteenth-century Paris [...]

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Swann's Way (Remembrance of Things Past, Volume One) (Book)

Marcel Proust (Author)

The first volume of Proust's seven-part novel "In Search of Lost Time," also known as "A Remembrance of Things Past," "Swann's Way" is the auspicious beginning of Proust's most prominent work. A mature, unnamed man recalls the details of his commonplace, idyllic existence [...]

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Days of Reading (Book)

Marcel Proust (Author)

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.

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