In Search Of Lost Time: Volume 3 (the Guermantes Way)

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By (author) Marcel Proust; By (author) Proust, Marcel; Translated by Treharne Mark; Edited by Prendergast, Christopher; Notes by Treharne Mark; Introduction by Treharne Mark

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“In Search of Lost Time” is one of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language. This book offers an English translation of the French original.

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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 entertaining 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 new generation.
Each volume is translated by a different, superb translator working under the general editorship of Professor Christopher Prendergast, University of Cambridge.

Biographical note:
Marcel Proust (1871-1922) is now generally viewed as the greatest French novelist and perhaps the greatest European novelist of the 20th century.He lived much of his later life as a reclusive semi-invalid in a sound-proofed flat in Paris, giving himself over entirely to writing IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME.