K. C.
1) Swann's way
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In search of lost time volume 1
Modern Library book volume 59
Remembrance of Things Past
À la recherche du temps perdu volume pt. 1
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Modern Library book volume 59
Remembrance of Things Past
À la recherche du temps perdu volume pt. 1
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English
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The first volume of Proust's seven-part novel In Search of Lost Time, also known as 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 as a sensitive and intuitive boy in Combray. For a time, the story is narrated through his younger mind in beautiful, almost dream-like prose. In a subsequent section of the volume, the...
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In search of lost time volume 3
À la recherche du temps perdu volume 3
Remembrance of things past volume 3
À la recherche du temps perdu volume 3
Remembrance of things past volume 3
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English
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After the relative intimacy of the first two volumes of In Search of Lost Time, The Guermantes Way 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 salute to and a devastating satire of a time, place, and culture, The Guermantes Way defines the great tradition of novels that follow the initiation of a...