Days of Reading

Informationen zum Autor Proust was born in Auteuil, France in 1871. He began writing his masterpiece, À la recherche du temps perdu , in 1909, and worked on it until his death in 1922, following several years of poor health during which he had been confined to his bedroom. Klappentext Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922) is now generally viewed as the greatest French novelist and perhaps the greatest European novelist of the 20th century. He lived much of his later life as a reclusive semi-invalid in a sound-proofed flat in Paris giving himself over entirely to writing In Search of Lost Time. Zusammenfassung Features essays about why we read. This work explores 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.

Product details

• Authors: Marcel Proust, John Sturrock
• Assisted by: John Sturrock (Translation), Sturrock John (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.08.2008
• EAN: 9780141036731
• ISBN: 978-0-14-103673-1
• No. of pages: 118
• Dimensions: 112 mm x 180 mm x 8 mm
• Series: Penguin Great Ideas; Penguin Books, Great Ideas; Great Ideas; Penguin Press Great Ideas; Penguin Great Ideas; Penguin Press Great Ideas; Penguin Books, Great Ideas
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Literary essays