Marcel Proust Books In Order

Remembrance of Things Past Books In Order

  1. The Way by Swann’s (1913)
  2. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (1919)
  3. The Guermantes Way (1920)
  4. Sodom and Gomorrah (1921)
  5. The Prisoner (1923)
  6. Albertine Gone (1925)
  7. Time Regained (1927)
  8. Swann in Love (1913)

Novels

  1. Jean Santeuil (1954)

Collections

  1. Pleasures and Regrets (1896)
  2. The Complete Short Stories of Marcel Proust (2001)
  3. The Mysterious Correspondent (2021)

Non fiction

  1. On Reading (1971)
  2. Letters to His Mother (1973)
  3. Selected Letters: 1880-1903 (1983)
  4. On Reading Ruskin (1987)
  5. Against Sainte-Beuve and Other Essays (1994)
  6. On Art and Literature: 1896-1919 (1996)
  7. Selected Letters: 1918-1921 (2000)
  8. Letters to the Lady Upstairs (2017)

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The Way by Swann’s

Swann’s Way, by Marcel Proust, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:

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Swann’s Way is the first novel of Marcel Proust s seven volume magnum opus la recherche du temps perdu, or Remembrance of Things Past. Following Charles Swann s opening ruminations about the nature of sleep is one of twentieth century literature s most famous and influential scenes: the eating of the madeleine soaked in a decoction of lime flowers, the associative act from which the remainder of the narrative unfurls. After elaborate reminiscences about Swann s childhood in Paris and rural Combray, Proust describes his protagonist s exploits in nineteenth century privileged Parisian society and his obsessive love for young socialite Odette de Cr cy.

Filled with searing, insightful, and humorous criticisms of French society, this novel showcases Proust s innovative prose style, characterized by lengthy, intricate sentences that elongate, stop, and reverse time. With narration that alternates between first and third person, Swann s Way unconventionally introduces Proust s recurring themes of memory, love, art, and the human experience and for nearly a century readers have deliciously savored each moment.

Elizabeth Dalton is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Barnard College. She has published fiction and criticism in the New Yorker, Partisan Review, Commentary, and the New York Times Book Review.

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

Readers and reviewers in the United Kingdom have hailed the new translations of Proust as a major literary event. Soon to appear in the United States, Swann’s Way, along with the second volume of In Search of Lost Time, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, will introduce a new century of American readers to the literary riches of Proust. These superb editions the first completely new translation of Proust s novel since the 1920s bring us a more comic and lucid Proust than English readers have previously been able to enjoy. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is a spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, charged with the narrator s memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside. In it, Proust introduces some of his greatest comic inventions. As a meditation on different forms of love, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower has no equal.

The Guermantes Way

The Guermantes Way, in this the third volume of In Search of Lost Time, refers to the path that leads to the Duc and Duchess de Guermantes’s ch teau near Combray. It also represents the narrator s passage into the rarefied social kaleidoscope of the Guermantes s Paris salon, an important intellectual playground for Parisian society, where he becomes a party to the wit and manners of the Guermantes s drawing room. Here he encounters nobles, officers, socialites, and assorted consorts, including Robert de Saint Loup and his prostitute mistress Rachel, the Baron de Charlus, and the Prince de Borodino. 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 la recherch du temps perdu the final volume of these new editions was published by the Biblioth que de la Pl iade in 1989.

Sodom and Gomorrah

Sodom and Gomorrah opens a new phase of In Search of Lost Time. While watching the pollination of the Duchess de Guermantes’s orchid, the narrator secretly observes a sexual encounter between two men. Flower and plant have no conscious will, Samuel Beckett wrote of Proust s representation of sexuality. 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. 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 la recherch du temps perdu the final volume of these new editions was published by the Biblioth que de la Pl iade in 1989.

The Prisoner

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 desire, sexual love, music, and the art of introspection. 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 la recherch du temps perdu the final volume of these new editions was published by the Biblioth que de la Pl iade in 1989.

Albertine Gone

The penultimate volume of Proust’s novel ‘A la Recherche du Temps Perdu’. The manuscript of this revised version, completed in 1922, was discovered in 1986. The revisions are crucial to the shape and direction of the novel as a whole, and this volume is an important addition to the Proust cannon.

Time Regained

A distraught woman writes a letter to Osama bin Laden after her four-year-old son and her husband are killed in a massive suicide bomb attack at a soccer match in London. In an emotionally raw voice alive with grief, compassion, and startling humor, she tries to convince Osama to abandon his terror campaign by revealing to him the desperate sadness-‘I am a woman built on the wreckage of myself’-and the broken heart of a working-class life blown apart.

But the bombing is only the beginning. While security measures transform London into a virtual occupied territory, the narrator, too, finds herself under siege. At first she gains strength by fighting back, taking a civilian job with the police to aid the antiterrorist effort. But when she becomes involved with an upper-class couple, she is drawn into a psychological maelstrom of guilt, ambition, and cynicism that erodes her faith in the society she’s working to defend. And when a new bomb threat sends the city into a deadly panic ‘It was a panic like the darkest dream and the more people ran out onto the streets the bigger the panic got like a monster made of human beings’ she is pushed to acts of unfathomable desperation-perhaps her only chance for survival.

A surreal vision made brilliantly, viscerally powerful and undeniable, Incendiary is a stunning debut novel.

The author responded to the tragic events which took place in London on July 7, 2005. Visit his website to read this response, and participate in a forum on the book. Link provided below.

Pleasures and Regrets

A stunning volume of philosophical reflections, short narratives, and prose poems, Pleasures and Days provides an early glimpse into Proust’s genius as a collector of exquisitely poignant sensations and recollections. Set amid the salon society of fin du si cle Paris, these sketches and short stories depict the lives, loves, manners, and motivations of a host of characters, all viewed with a famously knowing eye. By turns cuttingly satirical and bitterly moving, Proust s portrayals are layered with imagery and feeling whether they be of the aspiring Bouvard and P cuchet, the deluded Madame de Breyves, or of Baldassare Silvande, steeped in memories, regret, and final understanding at the end of his life. Novelist Marcel Proust was a prominent figure in the French salons of the late 19th century; he is best remembered for his seven volume masterpiece In Search of Lost Time.

The Complete Short Stories of Marcel Proust

This volume gathers together all of Marcel Proust’s short fiction and six tales never before translated into English.

On Reading

‘To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some effort, a genuine descent to the heart of oneself…
Only desire and love give us the strength to make this effort. The only books that we truly absorb are those we read with real appetite, after having worked hard to get them, so great had been our need of them.’

Reading was, for Marcel Proust, more than the pursuit of knowledge: a truly spiritual activity, it was a means of transforming and transcending the self. By reading great authors, he contends, we not only learn of great ideas, but are enriched by the fruits of the world’s most inspirational minds.

On Art and Literature: 1896-1919

Beginning with the remarkable essay ‘Contre Sainte Beuve’, this surprising and stimulating critical collection includes Proust on the contemporary writing of his era, on painting and painters, and on such literary masters of the nineteenth century as Tolstoy, Goethe, and Stendhal.

Selected Letters: 1918-1921

In his last years, ill and aware that his early death was fast approaching, Marcel Proust seldom left the confines of his apartment. As the German bombs rained down on Paris, he worked desperately to complete his great novel, ‘In Search of Lost Time’. Yet, although his illness and his dedication to his work meant that he rarely saw anyone but a few servants, Proust remained an indefatigable correspondent. He reached out to his wide circle of friends through his letters, and they vividly demonstrate that his great humanity, wit and compassion remained undimmed by his isolation and failing health. This, the fourth and final volume of the selected letters of Marcel Proust, brings to a close one of the greatest collections of correspondence in any language, at any time.

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