Marcel Proust - The Modern Library In Search of Lost Time, Complete and Unabridged : 6-Book Bundle

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In Search of Lost Time, Volume I copyright 1981 by Chatto & Windus and Random House, Inc.

In Search of Lost Time, Volume I Biographical note copyright 1992 by Random House, Inc.

In Search of Lost Time, Volume I Introduction copyright 2003 by Richard Howard.

In Search of Lost Time, Volume I Revisions to the translation copyright 1992 by D. J. Enright.

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This translation is a revised edition of the 1981 translation of Swanns Way, Within a Budding Grove, The Guermantes Way, Cities of the Plain, The Captive, and The Sweet Cheat Gone by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, published in the United States by Random House, Inc., and in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus. Revisions by D. J. Enright.

This translation is a revised edition of the 1981 translation of The Past Recaptured by Andreas Mayor and Terence Kilmartin, published in the United States by Random House, Inc., and in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus. Revisions by D. J. Enright.

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Biographical note copyright 1992 by Random House, Inc.
Introduction copyright 2003 by Richard Howard
Revisions to the translation copyright 1992 by D. J. Enright
Copyright 1981 by Chatto & Windus and Random House, Inc.

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This translation is a revised edition of the 1981 translation of Swanns Way by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, published in the United States by Random House, Inc., and in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus. Revisions by D. J. Enright.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Proust, Marcel, 18711922.
[Du cte de chez Swann. English]
Swanns way/Marcel Proust; translated by C. K. Scott
Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin; revised by D. J. Enright.
p. cm. (In search of lost time; v. 1)
Translation of: Du cte de chez Swann.
eISBN: 978-0-679-64178-0
I. Title. II. Series.
PQ2631.R63D83 1992
843 .912dc20 92-25657

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Marcel Proust was born in the Parisian suburb of Auteuil on July 10, 1871. His father, Adrien Proust, was a doctor celebrated for his work in epidemiology; his mother, Jeanne Weil, was a stockbrokers daughter of Jewish descent. He lived as a child in the family home on Boulevard Malesherbes in Paris, but spent vacations with his aunt and uncle in the town of Illiers near Chartres, where the Prousts had lived for generations and which became the model for the Combray of his great novel. (In recent years it was officially renamed Illiers-Combray.) Sickly from birth, Marcel was subject from the age of nine to violent attacks of asthma, and although he did a year of military service as a young man and studied law and political science, his invalidism disqualified him from an active professional life.

During the 1890s Proust contributed sketches to Le Figaro and to a short-lived magazine, Le Banquet, founded by some of his school friends in 1892. Pleasures and Days, a collection of his stories, essays, and poems, was published in 1896. In his youth Proust led an active social life, penetrating the highest circles of wealth and aristocracy. Artistically and intellectually, his influences included the aesthetic criticism of John Ruskin, the philosophy of Henri Bergson, the music of Wagner, and the fiction of Anatole France (on whom he modeled his character Bergotte). An affair begun in 1894 with the composer and pianist Reynaldo Hahn marked the beginning of Prousts often anguished acknowledgment of his homosexuality. Following the publication of Emile Zolas letter in defense of Colonel Dreyfus in 1898, Proust became the first Dreyfusard, as he later phrased it. By the time Dreyfus was finally vindicated of charges of treason, Prousts social circles had been torn apart by the anti-Semitism and political hatreds stirred up by the affair.