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New Releases by Marcel ProustMarcel Proust is the author of Swann in Love (2017), In Search of Lost Time (complete Collection) (2017), Remembrance of Things Past: Volume 2 (2016), Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time (2016), Swann's Way (Remembrance of Things Past) (2016).
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release date: Jan 01, 2017
In Search of Lost Time (complete Collection)
release date: Jan 01, 2017
Remembrance of Things Past: Volume 2
release date: Nov 24, 2016
Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time
release date: Oct 25, 2016
Swann's Way (Remembrance of Things Past)
release date: Sep 14, 2016
Marcel Proust - Swann's Way
release date: Sep 01, 2016
SWANN's WAY, MARCEL PROUST, LARGE 14 Point Font Print
release date: Jul 01, 2016
To admit you to the ''little nucleus,'' the ''little group,'' the ''little clan'' at the Verdurins'', one condition sufficed, but that one was indispensable; you must give tacit adherence to a Creed one of whose articles was that the young pianist, whom Mme. Verdurin had taken under her patronage that year, and of whom she said "Really, it oughtn''t to be allowed, to play Wagner as well as that!" left both Planté and Rubinstein ''sitting''; while Dr. Cottard was a more brilliant diagnostician than Potain. Each ''new recruit'' whom the Verdurins failed to persuade that the evenings spent by other people, in other houses than theirs, were as dull as ditch-water, saw himself banished forthwith. Women being in this respect more rebellious than men, more reluctant to lay aside all worldly curiosity and the desire to find out for themselves whether other drawing-rooms might not sometimes be as entertaining, and the Verdurins feeling, moreover, that this critical spirit and this demon of frivolity might, by their contagion, prove fatal to the orthodoxy of the little church, they had been obliged to expel, one after another, all those of the ''faithful'' who were of the female sex.Apart from the doctor''s young wife, they were reduced almost exclusively that season (for all that Mme. Verdurin herself was a thoroughly ''good'' woman, and came of a respectable middle-class family, excessively rich and wholly undistinguished, with which she had gradually and of her own accord severed all connection) to a young woman almost of a ''certain class,'' a Mme. de Crécy, whom Mme. Verdurin called by her Christian name, Odette, and pronounced a ''love,'' and to the pianist''s aunt, who looked as though she had, at one period, ''answered the bell'': ladies quite ignorant of the world, who in their social simplicity were so easily led to believe that the Princesse de Sagan and the Duchesse de Guermantes were obliged to pay large sums of money to other poor wretches, in order to have anyone at their dinner-parties, that if somebody had offered to procure them an invitation to the house of either of those great dames, the old doorkeeper and the woman of ''easy virtue'' would have contemptuously declined.The Verdurins never invited you to dinner; you had your ''place laid'' there. There was never any programme for the evening''s entertainment. The young pianist would play, but only if he felt inclined, for no one was forced to do anything, and, as M. Verdurin used to say: "We''re all friends here. Liberty Hall, you know!"If the pianist suggested playing the Ride of the Valkyries, or the Prelude to Tristan, Mme. Verdurin would protest, not that the music was displeasing to her, but, on the contrary, that it made too violent an impression. "Then you want me to have one of my headaches? You know quite well, it''s the same every time he plays that. I know what I''m in for. Tomorrow, when I want to get up-nothing doing!" If he was not going to play they talked, and one of the friends-usually the painter who was in favour there that year-would "spin," as M. Verdurin put it, "a damned funny yarn that made ''em all split with laughter," and especially Mme. Verdurin, for whom-so strong was her habit of taking literally the figurative accounts of her emotions-Dr. Cottard, who was then just starting in general practice, would "really have to come one day and set her jaw, which she had dislocated with laughing too much."Evening dress was barred, because you were all ''good pals,'' and didn''t want to look like the ''boring people'' who were to be avoided like the plague, and only asked to the big evenings, which were given as seldom as possible, and then only if it would amuse the painter or make the musician better known. The rest of the time you were quite happy playing charades and having supper in fancy dress, and there was no need to mingle any strange element with the little ''clan.''
Cities of the Plain (Sodom and Gomorrah)
release date: Oct 02, 2015
release date: Mar 30, 2015
Swann's Way (Illustrated)
release date: Apr 23, 2014
Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)
release date: Nov 17, 2013
Swann's Way-Remembrance of Things Past, Volume One
release date: Jan 05, 2013
release date: Sep 19, 2011
release date: Aug 24, 2011
In Search Of Lost Time Vol 1
release date: Oct 31, 2010
release date: Aug 07, 2008
The Senses of Consciousness
release date: Jun 01, 2008
Remembrance of Things Past
release date: Jan 01, 2006
Modern Classics: In Search of Lost Time Volume 6 - Finding Time Again
release date: Oct 28, 2003
Modern Classics: In Search of Lost Time Volume 3 - Guermantes Way
release date: Oct 28, 2003
In Search of Lost Time: Volume 1
release date: Oct 02, 2003
Modern Classics: In Search of Lost Time Volume 1 - Way By Swanns
release date: Oct 02, 2003
In Search of Lost Time Volume III The Guermantes Way
release date: Jan 01, 2003
release date: Jan 01, 2003
In Search of Lost Time: Way by Swann's
release date: Jan 01, 2002
In Search of Lost Time: Guermantes way
release date: Jan 01, 2002
In Search of Lost Time, Volume I
release date: Nov 01, 2000
In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV
release date: Nov 01, 2000
In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI
release date: Nov 01, 2000
Time Regained & A Guide to Proust
release date: Jan 01, 2000
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