In this short, straightforward, and beautifully written guide, Howard Moss deploys just the right touch of allure and explanation to enrich any reader's experience of Marcel Proust's great novel. Moss deftly describes the book's intricate form and recurrent themes, turning complications into pleasur[...]

Famous for its daunting difficulty, Marcel Proust s In Search of Lost Time remains a thrilling yet endlessly challenging literary experience. Now, in what might be likened to a piano reduction of an orchestral score, Stephane Heuet re-presents Proust for the reader who has always dreamed of reading [...]

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) spent the last fourteen years of his life writing A la recherche du temps perdu. It is an intimate epic, an excavation of the self, and a comedy of manners by turns and all at once. Proust is the twentieth century's Dante, presenting us with a unique, unsettling picture of [...]

In the opening volume of Proust's great novel, the narrator travels backwards in time in order to tell the story of a love affair that had taken place before his own birth. Swann's jealous love for Odette provides a prophetic model of the narrator's own relationships. All Proust's great themes - tim[...]

Marcel continues his voyage of discovery through the homosexual world, where affairs of the ageing Baron de Charlus lead to unexpected and hilarious adventures.[...]

Remembrance of Things Past is one of the monuments of 20th-century literature. Neville Jason's widely praised 36 CD abridged version has rightly become an audiobook landmark and now, after numerous requests, he is recording the whole work unabridged which, when complete, will run for some 140 hours.[...]

Remembrance of Things Past is one of the monuments of 20th-century literature. Neville Jason's widely praised 36 CD abridged version has rightly become an audiobook landmark and now, after numerous requests, he is recording the whole work unabridged which, when complete, will run for some 140 hours.[...]