The Guermantes Way

<p>After the relative intimacy of the first two volumes of <b>In Search of Lost Time</b>, <b>The Guermantes Way</b> opens up a vast, dazzling landscape of fashionable Parisian life in the late nineteenth century, as the narrator enters the brilliant, shallow world of the literary and aristocratic salons. Both a salute to and a devastating satire of a time, place, and culture, <b>The Guermantes Way</b> defines the great tradition of novels that follow the initiation of a young man into the ways of the world. This elegantly packaged new translation will introduce a new generation of American readers to the literary richness of Marcel Proust.</p> <ul> <li>First time in Penguin Classics</li> <li>A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with french flaps and luxurious design</li> <li>Penguin Classics' superb new edition of <b>In Search of Lost Time</b> is the first completely new translation of Proust's masterwork since the 1920s</li> </ul>

Author(s): Marcel Proust  

ISBN 10: 0143039229
ISBN 13: 9780143039228
Pages: 640
Format: Paperback
Publication: May 2005
Edition: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition