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  • Swann's Way

    In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    by Marcel Proust, Lydia Davis ...
    Translated by Lydia Davis ...
    Series Book 1 - In Search of Lost Time
    The first volume of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, in Lydia Davis's award-winning translationMarcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time is one of the most entertaining reading experiences in any language and arguably the finest novel of the twentieth century. But since its original prewar translation there has been no completely new version in English. Now, Penguin Classics ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $7.99 USD

  • Living and Dying with Marcel Proust

    by Christopher Prendergast ...
    A New York Times Editors' Choice A Publisher's Weekly Most Anticipated Book of 2022 Living and Dying with Marcel Proust is the result of a lifetime's reading of, reflection on, and love for Proust's masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time. One of the masterpieces of twentieth-century fiction, Proust's In Search of Lost Time describes a unique journey, combining elements drawn from the timeless ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Septembers

    by Christopher Prendergast ...
    'Annabel was a black and white figure in the distance, going in through the front doors. She worked behind the reception. I was a history teacher.'As we meet Matt, lying across the backseat of his on/off girlfriend's car, he begins a long confession. It starts with wrestling moves and continues past statue fires, reaching bomb threats and assault via episodes in the life of Franz von Papen, the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

    In Search of Lost Time, Volume 2 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    by Marcel Proust, James Grieve ...
    Translated by James Grieve ...
    Series Book 2 - In Search of Lost Time
    The second volume of In Search of Lost Time, one of the greatest novels of the twentieth centuryJames Grieve's acclaimed new translation of In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower will introduce a new century of American readers to the literary riches of Marcel Proust. As the second volume in the superb edition of In Search of Lost Time—the first completely new translation of Proust's novel since ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Counterfactuals

    Paths of the Might have Been

    by Christopher Prendergast ...
    What are counterfactuals and what is their point? In many cases, none at all. It may be true that if kangaroos didn't have tails, they would fall over, but they do have tails and if they didn't they wouldn't be kangaroos (or would they?). This is the sort of thing that can give counterfactuals a bad name, as inhabitants of a La La Land of the mind. On the other hand, counterfactuals do useful ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Triangle of Representation

    by Christopher Prendergast ...
    Moving deftly among literary and visual arts, as well as the modern critical canon, Christopher Prendergast's book explores the meaning and value of representation as both a philosophical challenge (What does it mean to create an image that "stands for" something absent?) and a political issue (Who has the right to represent whom?).The Triangle of Representation raises a range of theoretical, ... Read more

    Was $23.99 USD Now $18.99 USD

  • Mirages and Mad Beliefs

    Proust the Skeptic

    by Christopher Prendergast ...
    Marcel Proust was long the object of a cult in which the main point of reading his great novel In Search of Lost Time was to find, with its narrator, a redemptive epiphany in a pastry and a cup of lime-blossom tea. We now live in less confident times, in ways that place great strain on the assumptions and beliefs that made those earlier readings possible. This has led to a new manner of reading ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Adventures in Grammarland

    by Paul Georgiou, Christopher Prendergast ...
    Adventures in Grammarland is set in a fantasy world, where words are people and where, because of bitter conflict and disunity in the past, the land is now oppressed by the tyrant Ignorance. A young lad, Josh, embarks on a quest in Grammarland that requires him to grasp the rules of grammar, to understand why the rules are so important and to face Ignorance, and his two sons Bigotry and Prejudice, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • A History of Modern French Literature

    From the Sixteenth Century to the Twentieth Century

    Edited by Christopher Prendergast ...
    An accessible and authoritative new history of French literature, written by a highly distinguished transatlantic group of scholarsThis book provides an engaging, accessible, and exciting new history of French literature from the Renaissance through the twentieth century, from Rabelais and Marguerite de Navarre to Samuel Beckett and Assia Djebar. Christopher Prendergast, one of today's most ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Sodom and Gomorrah

    In Search of Lost Time, Volume 4 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    by Marcel Proust, John Sturrock ...
    Translated by John Sturrock ...
    Series Book 4 - In Search of Lost Time
    The fourth volume of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth centuryJohn Sturrock's acclaimed new translation of Sodom and Gomorrah will introduce a new generation of American readers to the literary riches of Proust. The fourth volume in this superb edition of *In Search of Lost Time—*the first completely new translation of Proust's masterpiece since the 1920s—brings us a more comic and lucid ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Guermantes Way

    In Search of Lost Time, Volume 3 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    by Marcel Proust, Mark Treharne ...
    Translated by Mark Treharne ...
    Series Book 3 - In Search of Lost Time
    The third volume of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth centuryMark Treharne's acclaimed new translation of The Guermantes Way will introduce a new generation of American readers to the literary richness of Marcel Proust. The third volume in Penguin Classics' superb new edition of *In Search of Lost Time—*the first completely new translation of Proust's masterpiece since the 1920s—brings ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • For the People, by the People?

    Eugene Sue's "Les Mysteres De Paris" - A Hypothesis in the Sociology of Literature

    by Christopher Prendergast ...
    "Eugene Sue (1804-57), like his contemporary Alexandre Dumas pere, was one of the most successful writers of his time. Les Mysteres de Paris, the novel for which he is most remembered, became a publishing sensation. In its serial form, it took the public by storm - readers fought for copies of the next instalment - and in book form its print-run reached an unprecedented 60,000. Christopher ... Read more

    $94.99 USD