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Swann’s Way
$18.95 Add to cartNow available for the first time in the United States, a celebrated translation of the first volume of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time.
Swann’s Way, the first of the seven volumes that constitut- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1681376296
- Language: English
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Swann’s Way
$30.00 Read moreIt all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and hardcover editions, each with a type cover showcasing a gorgeously illustrated letter of th… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Drop Caps
- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 05 2013
- ISBN10: 0143124692
- Language: English
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In Search of Lost Time: Within a Budding Grove V. 2 (Revised)
$22.00 Read moreFirst 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 childhoo… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: November 03 1998
- ISBN10: 0375752196
- Language: English
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Swann in Love
$11.95 Add to cartSwann in Love is a brilliant, devastating novella that tells of infatuation, love, and jealousy. Set against the backdrop of Paris at the end of the nineteenth century, the story of Charles Swann illu… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0198744897
- Language: English
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Cousin Bette
$11.95 Add to cartCousin Bette (1846) is considered to be Balzac’s last great novel, and a key work in his Human Comedy. Set in the Paris of the 1830s and 1840s, it is a complex tale of the devastating effect of violen… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Balzac, Honor? de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199553947
- Language: English
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Bel-Ami
$13.95 Add to cartMaupassant’s second novel, Bel-Ami (1885) is the story of a ruthlessly ambitious young man (Georges Duroy, christened “Bel-Ami” by his female admirers) making it to the top in fin-de-sihcle Paris. It … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Maupassant, Guy De
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199553939
- Language: English
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The Human Comedy: Selected Stories
$22.95 Add to cartAn NYRB Classics Original
Characters from every corner of society and all walks of life–lords and ladies, businessmen and military men, poor clerks, unforgiving moneylenders, aspiring politicians, ar- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: De Balzac, Honore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 21 2014
- ISBN10: 1590176642
- Language: English
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Eugénie Grandet
$13.95 Add to cart‘Who is going to marry Eug?nie Grandet?’
This is the question that fills the minds of the inhabitants of Saumur, the setting for Eug?nie Grandet (1833), one of the earliest and most famous novels in B- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Balzac, Honor? de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555893
- Language: English
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The Red and the Black
$11.00 Add to cartCharting the rise and fall of an ambitious young social climber in a cruel, monarchical society, Stendhal’s The Red and the Black is translated with an introduction and notes by Roger Gard in Penguin
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Stendhal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 607
- Publish Date: September 24 2002
- ISBN10: 0140447644
- Language: English
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Swann’s Way
$20.00 Add to cartIn Swann’s Way, the themes of Proust’s masterpiece are introduced, and the narrator’s childhood in Paris and Combray is recalled, most memorably in the evocation of the famous maternal good-night kiss… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: June 23 1998
- ISBN10: 0375751548
- Language: English
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Swann’s Way
$21.00 Add to cartThe first volume of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, in Lydia Davis’s award-winning translation
Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time is one of the most entertaining reading exper… [more below]- Series: Penguin Classics #1
- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 468
- Publish Date: November 30 2004
- ISBN10: 0142437964
- Language: English
