Proust, Marcel 1871-1922

Swann's way by Marcel Proust ( Book )
163 editions published between 1913 and 2014 in 3 languages and held by 6,145 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Presents the first book of Proust's monumental work "Remembrance of Things Past", introducing such themes as the destructive force of obsessive love, the allure and the consequences of transgressive sex, and the selective eye that shapes memories

Remembrance of things past by Marcel Proust ( Book )
118 editions published between 1922 and 2012 in 3 languages and held by 5,409 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
One of the great works of Western literature, now in the new definitive French Pleiade edition translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin. Volume one includes Swann's way and Within a budding grove

A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust ( Book )
628 editions published between 1914 and 2013 in 7 languages and held by 3,804 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Continues Marcel Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past", which has been described as 'one of the greatest works of imagination of all time'. As the young narrator succumbs to the charms of the enchanting Gilberte, the author presents us with an unparalleled account of the pangs of adolescent love. Young Marcel falls under the spell of an enchanting group of adolescent girls. At first intoxicated by their beauty and athletic energy, he finds it difficult to choose between them. Gradually he finds himself drawn to the beautiful Albertine, though without guessing how much she is to mean to him in the future

Jean Santeuil by Marcel Proust ( Book )
125 editions published between 1952 and 2009 in 8 languages and held by 2,569 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Unrevised draft of a novel telling of the growth and development of a young man in French society at the turn of the century

Within a budding grove by Marcel Proust ( Book )
66 editions published between 1918 and 2008 in English and held by 2,209 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
First published in 1919, Within a Budding Grove was awarded the Prix Goncourt, bringing the author immediate fame. In this second volume of In Search of Lost Time, the narrator turns from the childhood reminiscences of Swann's Way to memories of his adolescence. Having gradually become indifferent to Swann's daughter Gilberte, the narrator visits the seaside resort of Balbec with his grandmother and meets a new object of attention--Albertine, "a girl with brilliant, laughing eyes and plump, matt cheeks."

The Guermantes way by Marcel Proust ( Book )
98 editions published between 1920 and 2008 in English and French and held by 2,072 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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 young man into the ways of the world

Du côté de chez Swann by Marcel Proust ( Book )
343 editions published between 1914 and 2013 in 4 languages and held by 1,778 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Tentative empathique et scrupuleuse de reproduire, par phrases et illustrations idoines, l'atmosphère du roman. [SDM]

Les plaisirs et les jours by Marcel Proust ( Book )
272 editions published between 1896 and 2009 in 3 languages and held by 1,655 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
En 1896, M. Proust recueille en un volume l'ensemble des textes qu'il avait publié en revue depuis cinq ans, de manière à offrir une sorte d'agenda de l'existence, marquée par l'amour, l'érotisme et le passage du temps

Un amour de Swann by Marcel Proust ( Book )
228 editions published between 1919 and 2013 in 5 languages and held by 1,638 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Swann in Love is an episode of From Swann's Way, published in 1913, and the first volume of In Search of Lost Time, the universal work of Marcel Proust, . a 'human comedy of the Belle Epoque' abundant in personages, which is organized around the exploration of the narrator's memory, or of digressions, or flashbacks, and tells more of the facts of feelings, sensations, memories--translated by Google Translate from the French on p. [4] of cover

The captive by Marcel Proust ( Book )
54 editions published between 1923 and 2008 in English and French and held by 1,489 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Bergotte is now too ill to go out, and, confined to his house, he tries one remedy after another