{"product_id":"in-search-of-lost-time-volume-v-the-captive-the-fugitive-5-modern-library-classics-second-hand-book-online","title":"In Search of Lost Time Volume V The Captive \u0026 The Fugitive: 5 (Modern Library Classics) by Proust, Marcel | PAPERBACK | Subject: Humour | Condition:(Pre-Loved Good Conditon)","description":"\u003cp\u003eProduct DescriptionThe Modern Library?s fifth volume ofIn Search of Lost Time contains bothThe Captive (1923) andThe Fugitive (1925). InThe Captive, Proust?s narrator describes living in his mother?s Paris apartment with his lover, Albertine, and subsequently falling out of love with her. InThe 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 ofÁ la recherché du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989).Review?Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth.? -Graham GreeneFrom the Inside FlapThe Modern Library?s fifth volume ofIn Search of Lost Time contains bothThe Captive (1923) andThe Fugitive (1925). InThe Captive, Proust?s narrator describes living in his mother?s Paris apartment with his lover, Albertine, and subsequently falling out of love with her. InThe 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 ofÁ la recherché du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989).From the Back CoverThe 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 \"A la recherche du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliotheque de la Pleiade in 1989).About the AuthorMarcel Proust was born in the Parisian suburb of Auteuil on July 10, 1871. He began work onIn Search of Lost Time sometime around 1908, and the first volume,Swann?s Way, was published in 1913. In 1919 the second volume,Within a Budding Grove, won the Goncourt Prize, bringing Proust great and instantaneous fame. Two subsequent installments-The Guermantes Way (1920-21) andSodom and Gomorrah (1921)-appeared in his lifetime. The remaining volumes were published following Proust?s death on November 18, 1922:The Captive in 1923,The Fugitive in 1925, andTime Regained in 1927.Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.At daybreak, my face still turned to the wall, and before I had seen above the big window-curtains what shade of colour the first streaks of light assumed, I could already tell what the weather was like. The first sounds from the street had told me, according to whether they came to my ears deadened and distorted by the moisture of the atmosphere or quivering like arrows in the resonant, empty expanses of a spacious, frosty, pure morning; as soon as I heard the rumble of the first tramcar, I could tell whether it was sodden with rain or setting forth into the blue. And perhaps these sounds had themselves been forestalled by some swifter and more pervasive emanation which, stealing into my sleep, di\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pre-Loved Good Conditon","offers":[{"title":"Pre-Loved Good Conditon","offer_id":41416867053731,"sku":"AM-01_A109_9780375753114","price":399.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0249\/3857\/8002\/products\/51PyiXjbFvL.jpg?v=1631002973","url":"https:\/\/www.worthing.in\/products\/in-search-of-lost-time-volume-v-the-captive-the-fugitive-5-modern-library-classics-second-hand-book-online","provider":"Worthing.in","version":"1.0","type":"link"}