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The definitive translation of a truly great French novel - Proust's
beautiful, atmospheric story of memory and loss. This is the first
volume of In Search of Lost Time, one of the greatest French novels
of the twentieth century. Travelling back through time, the
narrator tells the story of events long since past - his childhood
happiness and sadness, and memories brought famously back to life
by the taste of a madeleine. His family's friend and neighbour, the
aristocratic Swann, weaves through the tale. We learn of Swann's
passionate love affair with Odette, a jealous love that creates a
model for the narrator's own relationships. All Proust's great
themes begin here: time and memory, love and loss, art and the
artistic vocation. THE ACCLAIMED FULLY REVISED EDITION OF THE SCOTT
MONCRIEFF AND KILMARTIN TRANSLATION The best translation available:
'A really major, significant achievement, and one that you should
put on your Christmas list immediately' Guardian VINTAGE FRENCH
CLASSICS - six masterpieces of French fiction in collectable
editions.
One of the greatest translations of all time: Scott Moncrieff's
classic version of Proust, published in three volumes Proust's
masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth century,
recording its narrator's experiences as he grows up, falls in love
and lives through the First World War. A profound reflection on
art, time, memory, self and loss, it is often viewed as the
definitive modern novel. C. K. Scott Moncrieff's famous translation
from the 1920s is today regarded as a classic in its own right and
is now available in three volumes in Penguin Classics. This first
volume includes Swann's Way and Within a Budding Grove. 'Scott
Moncrieff's [volumes] belong to that special category of
translations which are themselves literary masterpieces ... his
book is one of those translations, such as the Authorized Version
of the Bible itself, which can never be displaced' - A. N. Wilson
'For the reader wishing to tackle Proust your guide must be C K
Scott Moncrieff ... There are some who believe his headily perfumed
translation of A la recherche du temps perdu conjures Belle Epoque
France more vividly even than the original' - Telegraph 'I was more
interested and fascinated by your rendering than by Proust's
creation' - Joseph Conrad to Scott Moncrieff
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Swann's Way (Paperback)
Marcel Proust; Translated by C.K.Scott Moncrieff
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One of the great works of Western literature, now in the new definitive French Pleiade edition translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin. Volume one includes SWANN'S WAY and WITHIN A BUDDING GROVE.
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Jealousy - Vintage Minis (Paperback)
Marcel Proust; Translated by C.K.Scott Moncrieff, Terence Kilmartin; Revised by D.J. Enright
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Can we truly know the one we love? In this painfully candid book
Marcel Proust looks straight into the green eye of every lover's
jealous struggle. He broods on why we are driven to try possess one
another, how jealousy can outlive death, and whether we can ever
reclaim those careless days of first love. There is no greater
chronicler of jealousy's darkest fears and destructive suspicions
than Proust. Selected from the book In Search of Lost Time by
Marcel Proust VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.
A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the
experiences that make us human Also in the Vintage Minis series:
Desire by Haruki Murakami Eating by Nigella Lawson Home by Salman
Rushdie Babies by Anne Enright
Originally published in Italian in 1915, "Shoot! "is one of the
first novels to take as its subject the heady world of early motion
pictures. Based on the absurdist journals of fictional Italian
camera operator Serafino Gubbio, "Shoot!" documents the infancy of
film in Europe--complete with proto-divas, laughable production
schedules, and cost-cutting measures with priceless effects---and
offers a glimpse of the modern world through the camera's lens.
"Shoot!, "presented here in its 1927 English translation, is a
classic example of Nobel Prize-winning Sicilian playwright Luigi
Pirandello's (1867-1936) literary talent and genius for blurring
the line between art and reality. From the film studio Kosmograph,
Pirandello's Gubbio steadily winds the crank of his camera by day
and scribbles with his pen by night, revealing the world both
mundane and melodramatic that unfolds in front of his camera.
Through Gubbio's narrative--saturated with fantasy and
folly--Pirandello grapples with the philosophical implications of
modernity. Like much of Pirandello's work, "Shoot!" parodies human
weaknesses, drawing attention to the themes of isolation and
madness as emerging tendencies in the modern world.
Enhanced by new critical commentaries, "Shoot!" is an entertaining
caricature, capturing early twentieth-century Italian filmmaking
and revealing its truths as only a parody can.
A new, definitive text of Marcel Proust's novel was published by the Biblioth-que de la Pl-iade in 1989. for the present six-volume edition, D. J. Enright has further revised Terence Kilmartin's acclaimed revision of C. K. Scott Moncrieff's translation, and has incorporated significant new material. As a result, Proust's masterpiece emerges with renewed freshness and authority in this unassailable translation. Each volume contains notes, addenda and synopses, and the six and final volume also includes a Guide to the complete work
In Swann’s Way, the themes of Proust’s masterpiece are introduced, and the narrator’s childhood in Paris and Combray is recalled, most memorably in the evocation of the famous maternal good-night kiss. The recollection of the narrator’s love for Swann’s daughter Gilberte leads to an account of Swann’s passion for Odette and the rise of the nouveaux riches Verdurins.
For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartin’s acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieff’s translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of Á la recherché du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989).
Including THE GUERMANTES WAY and CITIES OF THE PLAIN.
The only paperback edition of the complete, definitive translation of one of the greatest novels in world literature. In 1989, the Bibliotheque de Pleiade published the final volume of the definitive original text of A la recherche du temps perdu. The Modern Library, In Search of Lost Time is the only complete translation into English based on the new French edition of Proust's masterpiece. Here D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartin's acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieff's translation to create the peerless rendition of Proust for our day.
The third and final volume includes THE CAPTIVE, THE FUGITIVE, and TIME REGAINED.
One of the greatest translations of all time: Scott Moncrieff's
classic version of Proust, published in three volumes Proust's
masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth century,
recording its narrator's experiences as he grows up, falls in love
and lives through the First World War. A profound reflection on
art, time, memory, self and loss, it is often viewed as the
definitive modern novel. C. K. Scott Moncrieff's famous translation
from the 1920s is today regarded as a classic in its own right and
is now available in three volumes in Penguin Classics. This second
volume includes The Guermantes Way and Cities of the Plain. 'Scott
Moncrieff's [volumes] belong to that special category of
translations which are themselves literary masterpieces ... his
book is one of those translations, such as the Authorized Version
of the Bible itself, which can never be displaced' - A. N. Wilson
'For the reader wishing to tackle Proust your guide must be C K
Scott Moncrieff ... There are some who believe his headily perfumed
translation of A la recherche du temps perdu conjures Belle Epoque
France more vividly even than the original' - Telegraph 'I was more
interested and fascinated by your rendering than by Proust's
creation' - Joseph Conrad to Scott Moncrieff
Known above all for his translations of Proust, Charles Scott
Moncrieff also had his own poetry, short stories and war serials
regularly published in literary periodicals. Here for the first
time is a collection of these, put together with an introduction by
Jean Findlay, author Chasing Lost Time - the life of CK Scott
Moncrieff, Soldier, Spy and Translator (Chatto and Windus 2014,
Vintage 2015, Farrar Straus and Giroux 2015)
Volume Five of Proust's work, "In Search of Lost Time". Translated by Scott Moncrieff and Kilmartin, this revised and updated edition contains notes, addenda and synopses.
Part of Proust's "In Search of Lost Time", this work is an updated and revised edition of the Scott Moncrieff and Kilmartin translation of "Within a Budding Grove". Notes, addenda and synopses are included.
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Vanina Vanini (Paperback)
C.K.Scott Moncrieff; Edited by Sir Angels; Stendhal
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Swann's Way (Paperback)
C.K.Scott Moncrieff; Marcel Proust
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