Now in a convenient eBook bundle, this Modern Library edition provides the most authoritative, critically acclaimed translation of Marcel Proust’s masterpiece in six volumes, In Search of Lost Time, which includes Swann’s Way, Within a Budding Grove, The Guermantes Way, Sodom and Gomorrah, The Captive, The Fugitive, and Time Regained.Graham Greene considered Marcel Proust “the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy wa...

THE ACCLAIMED FULLY REVISED EDITION OF THE SCOTT MONCRIEFF AND KILMARTIN TRANSLATIONTime Regained begins in the bleak and uncertain years of World War I. Years later, after the war's end, Proust's narrator returns to Paris and reflects on time, reality, jealousy, artistic creation, and the raw material of literature - his past life.This edition includes the indispensable A Guide to Proust, compiled by Terence Kilmartin and revised by Joanna Kilmar...

In this fourth volume, Proust’s novel takes up for the first time the theme of homosexual love and examines how destructive sexual jealousy can be for those who suffer it. Sodom and Gomorrah is also an unforgiving analysis of both the decadent high society of Paris and the rise of a philistine bourgeoisie that will inevitably supplant it.Paperback book also available

This is the third volume of Proust’s In Search Of Lost Time. 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. The Narrator’s family has moved to an apartment connected with the Guermantes residence. The Guermantes Way defines the great tradition of novels that follow the initiation of a young man into the ways of the world.

Within A Budding Grove, the second volume of Marcel Proust's monumental masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time, intricately explores the themes of memory, time, and the nature of art through a richly woven narrative style that blends introspective prose with vivid imagery. Proust employs a stream-of-consciousness technique, allowing characters'Äô thoughts and feelings to intertwine in a manner that reflects the fluidity of human experience. Set against the backdrop of early 20th-century Frenc...

The Human Comedy (French: La Comédie Humaine) is the title of Honoré de Balzac's multi-volume collection of interlinked novels and stories depicting French society in the period of the Restoration (1815-1830) and the July Monarchy (1830–1848). It consists of 91 finished works (stories, novels or analytical essays) and 46 unfinished works (some of which exist only as titles). It does not include Balzac's five theatrical plays or his collection of humorous tales, the "Contes drolatiques" (18...

Marcel Proust's 'Swann's Way' is a groundbreaking novel that explores memory, time, and the intricate workings of human consciousness. Written in a flowing and lyrical style, the book is part of Proust's seven-volume masterpiece, 'In Search of Lost Time.' 'Swann's Way' introduces readers to the themes and characters that will be further developed throughout the series, offering a deep dive into the complexities of relationships and the passage of time. Proust's use of intricate language an...

In The Captive, Proust's narrator describes living in his mother's Paris apartment with his lover, Albertine, and subsequently falling out of love with her.

Tansonville seemed little more than a place to rest in between two walks or a refuge during a shower. Rather too countrified, it was one of those rural dwellings where every sitting-room is a cabinet of greenery, and where the roses and the birds out in the garden keep you company in the curtains; for they were old and each rose stood out so clearly that it might have been picked like a real one and each bird put in a cage, unlike those pretentious modern decorations in which, against a si...

This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Sweet Cheat Gone by Marcel Proust - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Marcel Proust’.Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Pro...

Russia's famous novelist receives the scholarly Delphi treatment! This eBook offers readers ALL of Turgenev's major works and a wealth of other material too. (Version: 2)Features:* brief but informative introductions to the novels and other works* ALL 6 novels and 11 novellas, each with their own contents table* Almost ALL of the short stories and novellas, with excellent formatting* almost ALL of Turgenev's plays - discover 8 rare plays - first time in d...

Émile Zola was the most prominent French novelist of the late nineteenth century. He was noted for his theories of naturalism, which permeate his monumental 20-novel series ‘Les Rougon-Macquart’. Recognised in his lifetime as one of the greatest novelists of his era, Zola was also as a man of action, a defender of truth and justice, and a champion of the poor and persecuted. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents Zola’s complete works, with numerous illustrat...