Marcel Proust: The Early Years (Volume 1) and The Later Years (Volume 2) - Two Volume Set

2 volume complete match set published in 1965. Fourth printing for Volume 1 and First edition stated for Volume 2. Both with dust jackets nicely in archival wraps with tears and chips taken; volume 2 with soiling to the page edges, full-page of notes on the rear end page and overall heavier wear. George Duncan Painter OBE (1914 – 2005) was an English author most famous as a biographer of Marcel Proust.His two-volume biography of Proust was "rightly greeted as one of the great achievements in literary history", and it is still widely considered to be one of the finest literary biographies in the English language. Its second volume won the Duff Cooper Prize.