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Days of Reading by Marcel Proust
11.99 NZD
19.99 (40% off)
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: good
In these inspiring essays about why we read, Proust explores all the pleasures and trials that we take from books, as well as explaining the beauty of Ruskin and his work, and the joys of losing yourself in literature as a child. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transform ...Show more
In Search Of Lost Time Vol 1: Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
17.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: In Search of Lost Time Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This is an acclaimed, fully revised edition of the Scott Moncrieff and Kilmartin translation. In the opening volume of Proust's great novel, the narrator travels backwards in time in order to tell the story of a love affair that had taken place before his own birth. Swann's jealous love for Odette provi ...Show more
In Search Of Lost Time: Volume 2 by Marcel Proust, Marcel Proust
19.95 NZD
30.00 (33% off)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is a spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, and an unequalled meditation on different forms of love, charged with the narrator's memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside, and his relationships with his grandmother and the Swann family. Here Proust ...Show more
In Search Of Lost Time: Volume 3 by Marcel Proust, Marcel Proust
19.95 NZD
30.00 (33% off)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
After the relative intimacy of the first two volumes of In Search of Lost Time, Le Côté de Guermantes 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 salut ...Show more
In Search Of Lost Time: Volume 4 by Marcel Proust, Marcel Proust
19.95 NZD
30.00 (33% off)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Since the original, prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid Proust. IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME is one of the greatest, most enjoyable reading experiences in any language. As ...Show more
In Search Of Lost Time: Volume 5 by Marcel Proust, Marcel Proust
19.95 NZD
30.00 (33% off)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Since the original prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid Proust. "In Search of Lost Time" is one of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language ...Show more
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
130.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books
This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid Proust than usual, making this acclaimed novel accessible to a new generation of readers.
In Search of Lost Time: The Way by Swann's by Marcel Proust
27.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: good
One of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time Vol. 1: The Way by Swann's is published in a new translation from the French by Lydia Davis in Penguin Classics.The Way by Swann's is one of the great novels of childhood, depicting the imp ...Show more
In Search of Lost Time: Volume 6 - Finding Time Again by Marcel Proust, Marcel Proust
19.95 NZD
28.00 (28% off)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Since the original prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid Proust. "In Search of Lost Time" is one of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language ...Show more
Letters to the Lady Upstairs by Marcel Proust
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A charming, funny, poignant collection of twenty-three letters from Marcel Proust to his upstairs neighbour 102 Boulevard Haussmann, an elegant address in Paris's eighth arrondissement. Upstairs lives Madame Williams with her second husband, an American dentist, and her harp. Downstairs lives Marcel Pro ...Show more
On Reading by Marcel Proust
24.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: On
Collected in this unique volume are rare Proustian reflections on this most cherished of activities, together with the work he arguably held dearest, and which was to influence his own philosophy profoundly: Ruskin's 'Of Kings' Treasuries'. 'To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one ...Show more
Remembrance of Things Past (#1) by Marcel Proust
21.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: World Literature S.
Translated from the French by C.K. Scott Moncrieff. With an Introduction by Ingrid Wassenaar. Marcel Proust (1871-1922) spent the last fourteen years of his life writing A la recherche du temps perdu. It is an intimate epic, an excavation of the self, and a comedy of manners by turns and all at once. Pr ...Show more