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  • The Swann Way

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'The memory of a particular image is only regret for a particular moment...' The Swann Way is the first volume of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time (1913-27), one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. The work is a portal to Proust's novel and an introduction to its unforgettable first-person narrator-protagonist. Immersed in themes of time, memory, identity, art, sensation, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • A History of the FTAA

    From Hegemony to Fragmentation in the Americas

    by Marcel Nelson ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Providing a critical account of the collapse of the FTAA negotiations and alterations to power relations in the Americas, this book argues that the collapse was rooted in a "crisis of authority" prompted by growing opposition in the Americas to US leadership and the neo-liberal reforms that had been promoted by Washington since the 1980s. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Swann in Love

    by Marcel Proust ...
    Translated by Brian Nelson ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Swann's love . . . could not have been torn out of him without destroying him almost entirely' Swann in Love is a brilliant, devastating novella that tells of infatuation, love, and jealousy. Set against the backdrop of Paris at the end of the nineteenth century, the story of Charles Swann illuminates the fragilities and foibles of human beings when in the grip of desire. Swann is a highly ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom

    Translated by Charlotte Mandell ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'I was at one of those periods in youth--vacant, without any particular love object--when, like a lover seeing his beloved in all things, we desire, we seek, we see Beauty everywhere.' In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom, the second volume of Proust's In Search of Lost Time (1913-27), is a novel of exploration and (self-) discovery, continuing the story of the narrator's youth and adolescence. From ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Guermantes Way

    Translated by Peter Bush ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'the social kaleidoscope was shifting' The Guermantes Way, the third volume of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, provides a transition from the realm of adolescence into the adult social world of Belle Epoque Paris. Its pages buzz with worldly conversations, with bravado and posturing, infatuation, scandal, prejudice, and intrigue. To the fore is Proust's ear for spoken language and how it ... Read more

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  • Sodom and Gomorrah

    Translated by Helen Constantine ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'the metamorphosis of Monsieur de Charlus into a new person was so complete that... everything which had appeared incoherent to me until then, was becoming intelligible, and self-evident' The fourth volume of Proust's In Search of Lost Time extends the protagonist's journey of discovery into the social world of fin-de-siècle France. As the biblically inflected title, Sodom and Gomorrah, suggests, ... Read more

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  • How Proust Can Change Your Life

    Series series Vintage International
    A bestselling author draws on the work of one of history’s most important writers to show us how to best live life in a book that’s "delightfully original.... A self-help book in the deepest sense of the term" (The New York Times).Alain de Botton combines two unlikely genres—literary biography and self-help manual—in the hilarious and unexpectedly practical How Proust Can Change Your Life.Who ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Swann's Way

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

    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

  • Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

    Series series Perennial Classics
    From the groundbreaking author of The Second Sex "a book that will leave no one indifferent, and no one affected in quite the same way" ( New York Times ).A superb memoir by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir's Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an ... ... Read more

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  • Marcel Proust: The Best Works

    by Marcel Proust ...
    This ebook compiles Marcel Proust's greatest writings, including "Swann’s Way", "Within a Budding Grove", "The Guermantes Way", "The Captive" and "Time Regained". This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Therese Desqueyroux

    Translated by Raymond N. MacKenzie ...
    François Mauriac's masterpiece and one of the greatest Catholic novels, Thérèse Desqueyroux is the haunting story of an unhappily married young woman whose desperation drives her to thoughts of murder. Mauriac paints an unforgettable portrait of spiritual isolation and despair, but he also dramatizes the complex realities of forgiveness, grace, and redemption. Set in the countryside outside ... Read more

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  • Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time

    A Reader's Guide to The Remembrance of Things Past

    An accessible, irreverent guide to one of the most admired—and entertaining—novels of the past century: Rememberance of Things Past. There is no other guide like this; a user-friendly and enticing entry into the marvelously enjoyable world of Proust.At seven volumes, three thousand pages, and more than four hundred characters, as well as a towering reputation as a literary classic, Proust’s novel ... Read more

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