In Search of Lost Time: Volume 4 by Marcel Proust - ISBN: 9780141180342
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In Search of Lost Time: Volume 4

Sodom and Gomorrah

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  • Paperback

    576 pages

  • Release Date

    24 November 2003

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Summary

Brilliant reception for the hardcover edition

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 the great story unfolds from its magical opening scenes to its devastating end, it is the Penguin Proust that makes Proust accessible to a…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780141180342
ISBN-10:014118034X
Author:Marcel Proust, John Sturrock, Christopher Prendergast
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:576
Edition:4th
Release Date:24 November 2003
Weight:396g
Dimensions:198mm x 130mm x 26mm
Series:Penguin Modern Classics
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Critics Review

Poetic, even transcendant … John Sturrock is pitch-perfecta] equally at home with its intimacies and its bitter comedy. (Frank Wynne, “The Irish Times”)“The thing about Proust is his combination of the utmost sensibility with the utmost tenacity. He searches out these butterfly shades to the last grain.”–Virginia Woolf

About The Author

Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) is now generally viewed as the greatest French novelist and perhaps the greatest European novelist of the 20th century.

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