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Modern Library Classics eBook Series

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  • In Search of Lost Time, Volume I

    Swann's Way (A Modern Library E-Book)

    by Marcel Proust ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    'The transmutation of sensation into sentiment, the ebb tide of memory, waves of emotion such as desire, jealousy, and artistic euphoria--this is the material of this enormous and yet singularly light and translucid work.--VLADIMIR NABOKOVIn the overture to Swann's Way, the themes of the whole of In Search of Lost Time are introduced, and the narrator's childhood in Paris and Combray is recalled, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • In Search of Lost Time, Volume II

    Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)

    by Marcel Proust ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    Within a Budding Grove received the Prix Goncourt when it was published in 1919 and catapulted its author to overnight fame. It takes the autobiographical narrator of Swann's Way from childhood through adolescence. He loses interest in Gilberte and falls in love with Albertine, the dark girl on her bicycle, with 'that little beauty spot on her cheek, just under the eye.' Albertine, her friends, ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • In Search of Lost Time, Volume III

    The Guermantes Way

    by Marcel Proust ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    "The Guermantes way" is the path that runs past the chateau belonging to the Duc and Duchesse de Guermantes. It also represents the path into "the social kaleidoscope" traveled by Proust's narrator, which culminates in his introduction to the Paris salon of the Guermantes. The rich cast of characters in this third volume of In Search of Lost Time includes Robert de Saint-Loup, who is obsessed with ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • In Search of Lost Time, Volume 5

    The Captive, The Fugitive

    by Marcel Proust ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and The Fugitive (1925). In The Captive, Proust’s narrator describes living in his mother’s Paris apartment with his lover, Albertine, and subsequently falling out of love with her. In The Fugitive, the narrator loses Albertine forever. Rich with irony, The Captive and The Fugitive inspire meditations on ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV

    Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)

    by Marcel Proust ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    'Flower and plant have no conscious will. They are shameless, exposing their genitals. And so in a sense are Proust's men and women . . . shameless. There is no question of right and wrong. Homosexuality . . . is as devoid of moral implications as the mode of fecundation of the Primula veris or the Lythrum salicoria.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI

    Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book)

    by Marcel Proust ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    'Proust is perhaps the last great historian of the loves, the society, the intelligence, the diplomacy, the literature and the art of the Heartbreak House of capitalist culture.' ------------EDMUND WILSONThe final volume of In Search of Lost Time chronicles the years of World War I, when, as M. de Charlus reflects on a moonlit walk, Paris threatens to become another Pompeii. Years later, after the ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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  • The Captive

    by Marcel Proust ...
    Series Book 5 - Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" Collection
    Published in 1923, "The Captive", fifth volume of Proust´s masterpiece "In Search of Lost Time", is the most disturbing of them all."The Captive" picks up where "Sodome et Gomorrhe" left off, with our narrator Marcel and his partner Albertine now back in Paris, having left Balbec behind. It describes a morbidly possessive love affair. Consumed by jealousy, the narrator entices his mistress, ... Read more

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  • The Fugitive

    by Marcel Proust ...
    The Fugitive (Albertine disparue, also titled La Fugitive, sometimes translated as The Sweet Cheat Gone [the last line of Walter de la Mare's poem "The Ghost"] or Albertine Gone) (1925) is the second and final volume in "le Roman d'Albertine" and the second volume published after Proust's death. It is the most editorially vexed volume. As noted, the final three volumes of the novel were published ... Read more

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  • Time Regained

    by Marcel Proust ...
    In this literary work (published posthumously in 1927) Marcel Proust is dying. He looks at the photographs of his youth and brings them to mind at that time. He remembers his mistresses and is aware of the transition from the great war reach society as a whole. The memories move freely back and forth in time: we find Proust in various historical periods that interacts with Odette, with the ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • Crime and Punishment

    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
    **“A truly great translation . . . This English version . . .really is better.” —A. N. Wilson, The SpectatorNominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read**This acclaimed new translation of Dostoyevsky’s “psychological record of a crime” gives his dark masterpiece of murder and pursuit a renewed vitality, expressing its jagged, staccato urgency and fevered ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Old School

    by Tobias Wolff ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    The protagonist of Tobias Wolff’s shrewdly—and at times devastatingly—observed first novel is a boy at an elite prep school in 1960. He is an outsider who has learned to mimic the negligent manner of his more privileged classmates. Like many of them, he wants more than anything on earth to become a writer. But to do that he must first learn to tell the truth about himself.The agency of revelation ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Evening

    by Susan Minot ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A rich testament to the depths of passion and grief, this “exquisite [and] beautifully realized work” (The Boston Globe) explores time, memory, and love’s transcendence.“In spare and lovely language, Susan Minot has set forth a real life, in all its particularity and splendor and pain.”—The New York Times Book Review (Best Books of the Year)July 1954. Ann Grant—a twenty-five ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD