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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

    Was $4.99 USD Now $1.99 USD

  • The King in the Golden Mask

    by Marcel Schwob ...
    Translated by Kit Schluter ...
    First published in French in 1892 and never before translated fully into English, The King in the Golden Mask gathers 21 of Marcel Schwob’s cruelest and most erudite tales. Melding the fantastic with historical fiction, these stories describe moments of unexplained violence both historical and imaginary, often blending the two through Schwob’s collaging of primary source documents into fiction. ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Remembrance of Things Past: Volume 1

    Series series
    One of the greatest translations of all time: Scott Moncrieff's classic version of Proust, published in three stunning clothbound volumes designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith.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, ... Read more

    $24.29 USD

  • Popular Culture

    Introductory Perspectives

    by Marcel Danesi ...
    The fifth edition of Marcel Danesi’s Popular Culture is an accessible, engaging introduction for popular culture, media and society, and sociology of the media courses. The fifth edition features updated coverage on social media and digital cultures, including those surrounding memes, video games, virtual reality, and streaming services.Pop culture surrounds us. It infuses the movies we watch, the ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • 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

    $10.99 USD

  • Swann's Way

    In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    Translated by Lydia Davis ...
    Series Book 1 - In Search of Lost Time
    The first volume of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, in Lydia Davis's award-winning translationMarcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time is one of the most entertaining reading experiences in any language and arguably the finest novel of the twentieth century. But since its original prewar translation there has been no completely new version in English. Now, Penguin Classics ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $7.99 USD

  • The Modern Library In Search of Lost Time, Complete and Unabridged 6-Book Bundle

    Remembrance of Things Past, Volumes I-VI

    Now in a convenient eBook bundle, this Modern Library edition provides the most authoritative, critically acclaimed translation of Marcel Proust’s masterpiece in six volumes, In Search of Lost Time, which includes Swann’s Way, Within a Budding Grove, The Guermantes Way, Sodom and Gomorrah, The Captive, The Fugitive, and Time Regained.Graham Greene considered Marcel Proust “the greatest novelist of ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • How Tyrants Fall

    And How Nations Survive

    by Marcel Dirsus ...
    AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF 2024'Thought-provoking, vivid and often entertaining' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Compelling' FINANCIAL TIMES'Thought-provoking' THE ECONOMIST'Gripping . . . Essential and captivating' BRADLEY HOPEHOW DO WE END TYRANNY?Tyrants seem invincible, but they face constant threats from all sides. Whe... ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Swann Way

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'The memory of a particular image is only regret for a particular moment...' The Swann Way is the first volume of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time (1913-27), one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. The work is a portal to Proust's novel and an introduction to its unforgettable first-person narrator-protagonist. Immersed in themes of time, memory, identity, art, sensation, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Gift

    Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies

    by Marcel Mauss ...
    Translated by Ian Cunnison ...
    The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies (French: Essai sur le don: forme et raison de l'échange dans les sociétés archaïques) is a 1925 essay by the French sociologist Marcel Mauss that is the foundation of social theories of reciprocity and gift exchange.-Print ed. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]

    by Marcel Proust ...
    "‘In Search of Lost Time’ is widely recognized as the major novel of the twentieth century." —Harold Bloom "At once the last great classic of French epic prose tradition and the towering precursor of the 'nouveau roman’." —Bengt Holmqvist "Proust so titillates my own desire for expression that I can hardly set out the sentence. Oh if I could write like that!" —Virginia Woolf "The greatest fiction ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Gift

    Expanded Edition

    Translated by Jane I. Guyer ...
    by Marcel Mauss ...
    Scan down a list of essential works in any introduction to anthropology course and you are likely to see Marcel Mauss’ masterpiece, The Gift. With this new translation, Mauss’ classic essay is returned to its original context, published alongside the works that framed its first publication in the 1923–24 issue of L’Année Sociologique. With a critical foreword by Bill Maurer and a new introduction ... Read more

    $17.99 USD