In this opening volume of Proust's great novel, the narrator seems at first to be launching a fairly traditional life-story. But after the prelude the narrator travels backwards rather than forwards 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, together with the comic antics of the Verdurins and the adoring members of their 'little clan', provide a prophetic model of the narrator's own love-relationships and peregrinations in salon society. All Proust's great themes - time and memory, love and loss, art and the artistic vocation - are here in kernel form.

Swann's Way

Literature & Fiction

Proust. Marcel

Classics

Harpercollins Pub, Ltd.

Text: English, French (translation)

Marcel Proust, selected letters, 1880-1903

Collins

This is the second volume of Marcel Proust's selected letters and covers the period 1904-1909. It includes correspondence to H. Gauthier-Villars, Lucien Daudet, Anatole France, Albert Sorel, Maurice Barres, Gabriel de la Rochefoucauld, Madame Straus, Robert Dreyfus, his mother and many others.

Marcel Proust - Selected Letters: 1904-1909

Kolb, Philip

No. 102 Boulevard Haussmann is an elegant address in the eighth arrondissement of Paris. Upstairs lives Madame Williams, with her second husband and her harp; downstairs, Marcel Proust is trying to write In Search of Lost Time. Between 1909 and 1919, a correspondence that starts with a request for silence develops into a touching friendship, discussing books, music, domestic arrangements, illness, and the sadness of losing friends in the war.

Letters to the Lady Upstairs

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Fourth Estate

A charming, funny, poignant collection of twenty-three letters from Marcel Proust to his upstairs neighbour\n102 Boulevard Haussmann, an elegant address in Paris’s eighth arrondissement. 
Upstairs lives Madame Williams, with her second husband and her harp. Downstairs lives Marcel Proust, trying to write In Search of Lost Time, but all too often distracted by the noise from upstairs. 
Written by Proust to Madame Williams between the years 1909 and 1919, this precious discovery of letters reveals the comings and goings of a Paris building, as seen through Proust’s eyes. You’ll read of the effort required to live peacefully with annoying neighbours; of the sadness of losing friends in the war; of concerts and music and writing; and, above all, of a growing, touching friendship between two lonely souls. 
‘Delightful. Big news for Proustians’ Daily Telegraph 
‘If you have suffered from noisy neighbours, you will sympathize with Marcel Proust’ Times Literary Supplement 
‘A haunting portrait of a friendship between two people who lived within earshot of one another, separated only by a few inches of plaster and floorboard, but who scarcely ever met’ New Statesman

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff, Introduction by Lewis Galantiere

Literary

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

In Search of Lost Time, Volume I: Swann's Way

Vintage Classics

BRAND NEW, Exactly same ISBN as listed, Please double check ISBN carefully before ordering.

In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (Vol 2)

Contemporary

In The Guermantes Way Proust's narrator recalls his initiation into the dazzling world of Parisian high society. Looking back over his time in the glamorous salons of the aristocracy, he satirises this shallow world and his own youthful infatuation with it. His observations, and his experiences with his lover Albertine, also educate him in the volatile nature of desire as he walks the path towards adulthood.

In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way (Vintage Classics)

In Search of Lost Time [Paperback] [Dec 05, 1996] Marcel Proust

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Swann's Way

Marcel Proust, selected letters, 1880-1903

Marcel Proust - Selected Letters: 1904-1909

Letters to the Lady Upstairs

Letters to the Lady Upstairs

Swann's Way

In Search of Lost Time, Volume I: Swann's Way

In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (Vol 2)

In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way (Vintage Classics)

In Search of Lost Time [Paperback] [Dec 05, 1996] Marcel Proust