Marcel Proust: A Life
By: William C. Carter
4.35
Format: 946 pages, Hardcover
This book is a magisterial account of the life and times of Marcel Proust, one of the greatest lite…
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1. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright
4.39
Format: 957 pages, Paperback
The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more
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- literature
- france
- french literature
- 20th century
"...every social class has its own pathology..."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
2. Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time: A Reader's Guide to The Remembrance of Things Past
By: Patrick Alexander
4.07
Format: 385 pages, Paperback
An accessible, irreverent guide to one of the most admired—and entertaining—novels of the past Rem… read more
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- france
- nonfiction
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- 20th century
"Those of us of a certain age will recognize the shock that Marcel felt when he entered the main salon and saw his fellow guests for the first time after the passage of years. At first he thought it w…"-Patrick Alexander, Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time: A Reader's Guide to The Remembrance of Things Past
3. Albertine disparue (À la recherche du temps perdu, #6)
By: Marcel Proust
3.40
Format: 300 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Albertine disparueest le dernier volume revu et remanie par Proust avant sa mort. Prevu d'abord sou… read more
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4. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time, #2)
By: Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , James Grieve
4.35
Format: 26 pages, Paperback
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Floweris Proust's spectacular dissection of male and female adolesc… read more
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5. Poetics
By: Aristotle , Malcolm Heath
3.59
Format: None pages, Paperback
'The plot is the source and the soul of tragedy' In his near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy,… read more
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- nonfiction
6. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
By: Muriel Spark
3.70
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
A teacher at a girl's school in Edinburgh during the 1930s comes into conflict with school authorit… read more
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"It's only possible to betray where loyalty is due"-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"[...] there were other people's Edinburghs quite different from hers [...]"-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"... flattening their scorn underneath the chariot wheels of her superiority."-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul."-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
7. Père Goriot
By: Honoré de Balzac
3.85
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Père Goriot is the tragic story of a father whose obsessive love for his two daughters leads to his… read more
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- france
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"Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes."-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
"آری ,در این دنیا هیچ چیزی کامل نیست, مگر بدبختی."-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
"Notre coeur est un trésor, videz-le d'un coup, vous êtes ruinés."-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
"If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible."-Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
8. The Divine Comedy
By: Dante Alighieri , Eugenio Montale , Allen Mandelbaum
4.29
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The Divine Comedy, translated by Allen Mandelbaum, begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in th… read more
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- literature
9. Time Regained (In Search of Lost Time, #7)
By: Marcel Proust , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright , Andreas Mayor
3.70
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
The final volume of In Search of Lost Time chronicles the years of World War I, when, as M. de Char… read more
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10. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis
4.15
Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback
«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more
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- literature
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"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
11. How Proust Can Change Your Life
By: Alain de Botton
3.76
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
For anyone who ever wondered what Marcel Proust had in mind when he wrote the one-and-a-quarter-mil… read more
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- literature
- nonfiction
- biography
"Deprivation quickly drives us into a process of appreciation."-Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life
"It is, unfortunately, easier to lose a lover than complete In Search of Lost Time. "-Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life
"One cannot read a novel without ascribing to the heroine the traits of the one we love."-Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life
"For Proust, an injection of jealousy is the only thing capable of rescuing a relationship ruined by habit."-Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life
12. Sentimental Education
By: Gustave Flaubert , Geoffrey Wall , Robert Baldick
3.81
Format: 460 pages, Paperback
Based on Flaubert’s own youthful passion for an older woman, Sentimental Education was described by… read more
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- literature
- france
- french literature
"Cheer up,' said the captain's son. 'Life is long, and we are young."-Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education
"A man so habituated to corruption that he would happily pay for the pleasure of selling himself."-Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education
"...I'm going to write a little novel entitled 'The History of the Idea of Justice' and won't it be funny!"-Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education
"It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find."-Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education
13. Ask the Dust (Arturo Bandini, #3)
By: Charles Bukowski , John Fante
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
Ask the Dustis the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for … read more
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14. Battle Cry of Freedom
By: James M. McPherson
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, B… read more
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16. The Kindly Ones (A Dance to the Music of Time, #6)
By: Anthony Powell
4.23
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A Dance to the Music of Time – his brilliant 12-novel sequence, which chronicles the lives of over … read more
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- 20th century
17. Go, Went, Gone
By: Jenny Erpenbeck
4.13
Format: None pages,
One of the great contemporary European writers takes on Europe's biggest issue. Richard has spent h… read more
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18. How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
By: Clint Smith
4.71
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Poet and contributor to The Atlantic Clint Smith’s revealing, contemporary portrait of America as a… read more
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- history
"How do you tell a story that has been told the wrong way for so long?"-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
"Just as he did during the Slavery at Monticello tour, David did not mince words. "There’s a chapter in Notes on the State of Virginia ,"-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
"Jefferson believed himself to be a benevolent slave owner, but his moral ideals came second to, and were always entangled with, his own economic interests and the interests of his family."-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
"But not enough people spoke about the reasons so many black children grow up communities saturated with poverty and violence. Not enough people spoke about how these realities were the result of deci…"-Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
19. Whale
By: Cheon Myeong-Kwan
3.96
Format: 420 pages, Paperback
While "Whale" begins with Chunhee, a mysterious young brickmaker of imposing physicality who cannot… read more
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20. You Have a Friend in 10A: Stories
By: Maggie Shipstead
3.43
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times best-selling author Maggie Shipstead, an irresistible collection of short stori… read more
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21. Marcel Proust: A Life
By: William C. Carter
4.35
Format: 946 pages, Hardcover
This book is a magisterial account of the life and times of Marcel Proust, one of the greatest lite… read more
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