The Guermantes Way Part One & Two

Marcel Proust

ISBN 10: 0701110562 / ISBN 13: 9780701110567

Published by London: Chatto & Windus, 1972

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Condition Notes: Plain paper dust wrappers a little edgeworn and faded on both volumes with the price clipped. Both also gently faded at the spine; Hardback. Dust wrapper over blue boards with gilt titles to the spine; Measures 7½" x 4¾" (1 kg); pp 427/394; In the Remembrance of Things Past series; Translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff; Cover art by Enid Marx; Number 5 & 6 in the series. Includes: Black & white plates; Frontispiece; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #185686 ||.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Guermantes Way Part One & Two
• Publisher: London: Chatto & Windus
• Publication Date: 1972
• ISBN 10: 0701110562
• ISBN 13: 9780701110567
• Binding: Hardback in Dust Wrapper.
• Illustrator: Philippe Jullian
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
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Synopsis

Proust's monumental work has been described as the masterwork of masterworks; its place in the history of world literature was assured long ago. Yet since Scott Moncrieff's original translation, there has been no brand-new rendering of the French original into English. Now, Penguin is proud to present a superb new translation of this seminal work for the twenty-first century. Tthis translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid Proust than English readers have previously been able to enjoy. Language, and its rich variety and extravagances, is very much at the centre of this translation by many hands; a team of translators is ideally placed to capture Proust's world of multiple styles and modes of writing.

About the Author

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.