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The fourth volume of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century John Sturrock's acclaimed new translation of Sodom and Gomorrah will introduce a new generation of American readers to the literary riches of Proust. The fourth volume in this superb edition of In Search... Read Full Overview

An authoritative new edition of the fourth volume in Marcel Proust's epic masterwork, In Search of Lost Time series

Sodom and Gomorrah opens a new phase of In Search of Lost Time . While watching the pollination of the Duchess de Guer-mantes 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... Read Full Overview

Sodom and Gomorrah opens a new phase of In Search of Lost Time . While watching the pollination of the Duchess de Guer-mantes'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... Read Full Overview

MARCEL PROUST (1871-1922), fils d Adrien Proust, professeur la Facult de m decine de Paris et de Jeanne Cl mence Weil, fille d un agent de change d origine juive alsacienne et lorraine, laquelle voue au jeune Marcel une affection souvent envahissante mais lui apporte aussi... Read Full Overview

Sodom and Gomorrah (1921/22) is the fourth volume of Marcel Proust's seven-part novel In Search of Lost Time. Being the last volume that had Proust's direct involvement, Sodom and Gomorrah is a story of love, jealousy and family from a master of Modernist literature... Read Full Overview

Since the original, prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid Proust. IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME is one of the greatest, most enjoyable reading experiences... Read Full Overview

Like its predecessors, this wonderful new translation is certain to be hailed as a literary event, bringing us a more rich, comic, and lucid Proust than American readers have previously been able to enjoy.In this fourth volume, Proust?s novel takes up for the first time the theme... Read Full Overview

The reader will remember that, long before going that day (on the evening of which the Princesse de Guermantes was to give her party) to pay the Duke and Duchess the visit which I have just described, I had kept watch for their return and had made, in the course of my vigil,... Read Full Overview

Marsel' Prust (1871-1922) - odin iz samyh utonchennyh i zagadochnyh klassikov francuzskoj literatury, neprevzojdennyj stilist i master nezabyvaemyh metafor, jarchajshij predstavitel' literaturnogo modernizma. Ego semitomnaja jepopeja "V poiskah utrachennogo vremeni" stala odnim... Read Full Overview

Volume 5 of the great French novel in the classic translation

This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare's... Read Full Overview

Sodom and Gomorrah (1921/22) is the fourth volume of Marcel Proust's seven-part novel In Search of Lost Time. Being the last volume that had Proust's direct involvement, Sodom and Gomorrah is a story of love, jealousy and family from a master of Modernist... Read Full Overview