Prendergast Christopher Proust Marcel (276 results)

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Condition: good. May show signs of wear, highlighting, writing, and previous use. This item may be a former library book with typical markings. No guarantee on products that contain supplements Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed. Twenty-five year bookseller with shipments to over fifty million happy customers.

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Softcover. Condition: Bon. Couverture différente. Edition 2002. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Different cover. Edition 2002. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

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Condition: New. Hische, Jessica (illustrator).

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Original Black Hardcovers. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition Thus. 2002. First printing. xiii, 621ppSince the original pre-war translation Remembrance of Things Past by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, there has been no completely new rendering of Proust's French original into English. This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid Proust. As the great story unfolds from its magical opening scenes to its devastating end, it is this Penguin edition of In Search of Lost Time that makes Proust accessible to a new generation." Pages browning, otherwise the book and unclipped dust jacket are in excellent condition. No inscriptions.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Dustjacket mylar-wrapped for future preservation. First thus with full number line. Mild foxing on top edge. Textblock clean and bright.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First American Edition. META-CLASSIC: NEW First American Edition hardcover (Orig. February 2004) First Printing as shown by full no. line: NEW mylar-protected jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing Orig. pub. $27.95 price printed at top-right inside-front flyleaf, NEW cover w/ black paper wrapping spine & extending 1.50" onto front & back panels covered in black paper & w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & titles elegantly silver-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW perfect binding w/ tight signatures & black-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps, IMPECCABLE end-papers on heavy cream-white paper, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in Berhold Garamond on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * 6.06" x 9.24" x 1.62", 0.92 kg, xviii+588 (606) pp. * ABOUT THE BOOK: "Proust was the greatest novelist of the 20th century, just as Tolstoy was in the 19th." -Graham Greene. James Grieve's acclaimed translation of "In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower" has introduced a new century of English-language readers to the riches of Marcel Proust. As the 2nd vol. in the superb Allen Lane-Viking Press edition of "In Search of Lost Time"--the first completely new translation of Proust's novel since the 1920s--it brings a more comic & lucid prose than English readers have previously enjoyed. "In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower" is Proust's spectacular dissection of male & female adolescence, charged w/ the narrator's memories of Paris & the Normandy seaside. At the heart of the story lies his relationships w/ his grandmother & w/ the Swann family. As a meditation of the different forms of love, "In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower" has no equal. Here, Proust introduces some of his greatest comic inventions, from the magnificently dull M. de Norpois to the enchanting Robert de Saint-Loup. It is memorable as well for the first appearance of the two figures who for better or for worse are to dominate the narrator's life--the Baron de Charlus & the mysterious Albertine. * HIGHEST PRAISE: "The latest Penguin Proust is a triumph, & will bring this inexhaustible artwork to new audiences throughout the English-speaking world." -Malcolm Bowie, Sunday Telegraph (London). "James Grieve poignantly captures the sense of loss, of bereavement which informs the novel as a whole." -Frank Wynne, Irish Times. "The new Penguin Proust offers English readers a stylistic experience that is a far better equivalent of the original than what they have had till now." -Robert Alter, TLS. * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: MARCEL PROUST was born in Auteil in 1871. In his 20s, following a year in the army, he became a conspicuous society figure, frequenting the most fashionable Paris salons of the day. After 1899, however, his chronic asthma, the death of his parents, & his growing disillusionment w/ humanity caused him to lead an increasingly retired life. From 1907 on, he rarely emerged from a cork-lined room in his apartment on boulevard Haussmann. There he insulted himself against the distractions of city life & the effects of trees & flowers--though he loved them, they brought on his attacks of asthma. He slept by day & worked by night, writing letters & devoting himself to the completion of "In Search of Lost Time." He died in 1922. * ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR: JAMES GRIEVE is sometimes Reader in French a the Australian National University. He has published a translation of the first part of Proust's work ("Swann's Way", 1982) & 2 novels for young adults, "A Season of Grannies" (1987) & "They're Only Human (2001). * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below-cost additional fee & to international destinations via efficient USPS FIRST CLASS MAIL at our below-cost rates quoted upon request.

First US edition. Super 8vo, pp. xx + 619; violet heavy card boards, black card spine lettered in silver gilt; VG (light scuffing & soiling to boards; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & soiling to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG (light scuffing & soiling; light to moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems; light tanning & foxing).

First US edition. Super 8vo, pp. xxiv + 468; violet heavy card boards, black card spine lettered in silver gilt; VG (light scuffing & soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & soiling to eps, prelims & terminals); in d/w, VG (light scuffing & soiling; light to moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems; light tanning & foxing).

First US edition. Super 8vo, pp. xviii + 558; violet heavy card boards, black card spine lettered in silver gilt; VG (moderate scuffing & soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light to moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & soiling to eps, prelims & terminals; some pgs throughout folded at head extrems, 'dog-eared' as to bookmark); in d/w, VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling; light to moderate bruising & creasing to edges & extrems; light tanning & foxing).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Book and dust jacket are in near fine condition with 374pp.