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This text is the translation of the first part of the first volume of "Remembrance of Things Past". It paints a portrait of French society at the ... More

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Both a salute to and a devastating satire of the dazzling, fashionable Parisian life in the late 19th century, this volume defines the great ... More

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"Remembrance of Things Past is one of the monuments of 20th century literature. Neville Jason's widely praised 36 CD abridged version has rightly ... More

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This work mirrors, rather than paints, revealing glimpses of life as it was whiled away in the climate of fear and greedy drawing-room conformity ... More

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In Time Regained, the final volume of Remembrance of Things Past, as the various threads that have emerged through the vast novel are brought ... More

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This volume opens up a vast, dazzling landscape of fashionable Parisian life in the late 19th century, as the narrator enters the brilliant, shallow ... More

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Now a major musical film from Oscar-winning director Tom Hooper ("The King's Speech"), starring Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and Anne Hathaway, and ... More

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An abridged version of the timeless story by Victor Hugo, this book will appeal to both youth and adult readers who are interested in reading the ... More

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1902. With a critical introduction by Professor W.P. Trent. A frontispiece and numerous other portraits with descriptive notes by Octave Uzanne. ... More

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Honor de Balzac (1799-1850) produced a huge collection of novels, novellas and short stories, earning him recognition as a great master of the novel, ... More

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In THE FUGITIVE (also known as THE SWEET CHEAT GONE), despite his family's disapproval, Marcel and Albertine live together in Paris. He becomes ... More

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'Who is going to marry Eug nie Grandet?' This is the question that fills the minds of the inhabitants of Saumur, the setting for Eug nie Grandet ... More

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Doctor Pascal Rougon, a medical man at Plassans and a distin-guished student of heredity, had brought up his niece Clotilde (daughter of Aristide ... More

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In The Captive, Proust's narrator is living with Albertine in his mother's Paris apartment. He is chronically concerned about who she may or may not ... More

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The reader portrays Swann's longing for the former courtesan Odette de Crecy, and Marcel's childish love for their daughter Gilberte, with ... More

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Written in 1846 at the height of Balzac's literary powers, this novel portrays the stunningly malevolent Cousin Bette and her intricate plans for ... More

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The Kill (La Cur e) is the second volume in Zola's great cycle of twenty novels, Les Rougon-Macquart, and the first to establish Paris - the capital ... More

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The 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 ... More

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In December of 1827, Marie Henri Beyle read a newspaper account of the trial of a young man charged with the attempted murder of a married woman. ... More

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Old Goriot has raised his two daughters to be selfish, vain, and greedy; when as adults they treat him badly, repaying his indulgence of their whims ... More

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"Swann's Way," by Marcel Proust, is part of the "Barnes & Noble Classics"" "series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student ... More

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The Modern Library's "Sodom and Gomorrah" is the only complete translation into English based on the new French edition of Proust's masterpiece.

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