In reading, friendship is suddenly brought back to its first purity. With books, no amiability. These friends, if we spend an evening with them, it is truly because we desire them. In their case, at least, we leave only with regret.
    
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Marcel Proust:
Remembrance of Things Past - Combray

  •   English version of the best-selling French comic book.


  

Murder Chez Proust
- Agatha Christie style mystery, written  by the editor of The Friends of Marcel Proust and Combray Society Bulletin.

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       Travel

  
Baker, Susan. Following Proust: Norman Churches, Cathedrals, and Paris Paintings
  
  

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A La Recherché de Temps Perdu
  


Swann's Way

translated by Moncrief and Kilmartin; revised by Enright

Swann in Love


Swann's Way

translated by Lydia Davis

 


Within a Budding Grove

translated by Moncrief and Terrence Kilmartin; revised by Enright


The Guermantes Way

translated by Moncrief and Kilmartin; revised by Enright

  • hardcover
  • paperback
  • audio cassette
       Part 1 (abridged)
       Part 2 (abridged)
  • compact disc
       Part 1 (abridged)
       Part 2 (abridged)
  • electronic text
       Microsoft Reader
       Adobe Reader
  • audio download (Audible.com)

The Captive & The Fugitive

translated by Moncrief and Kilmartin; revised by Enright

  • The Fugitive
       audio cassette (abridged)
       compact disc (abridged)
  • The Captive & The Fugitive
       electronic text
            Microsoft Reader
            Adobe Reader
  • audio download (Audible.com)

Time Regained

translated by Moncrief and Kilmartin; revised by Enright

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     Other Writings by Proust

The Complete Short Stories of Marcel Proust 
bulletintroduction by Roger Shattuck.
Marcel Proust: On Art and Literature - 1896-1919
bulletedited by Sylvia Townsend Warner
bulletintroduction by Terence Kilmartin
Pleasures and Regrets
bulletcollection of early short stories.
bullettranslated by Louise Varese

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     Critical Works and Reading Guides

Bales, Richard (editor). The Cambridge Companion to Proust
 
bulletcollection of specially commissioned essays.

Bowie, Malcom.
Proust Among the Stars
bulletchallenges traditional thematic interpretations
  
Hindus, Milton. A Companion to Proust
bulletincludes analysis of earlier works as studies for Recherché

Ladenson, Elizabeth.
Proust's Lesbianism
bulletargues for the centrality of lesbianism as an aesthetic model

Shattuck, Roger.
Proust's Way: A Field Guide to 'In Search of Lost Time'
bullet by the winner of the National Book Award for an earlier book on Proust
 
Brassai, Richard Howard.
Proust in the Power of Photography  
 

Lhomeau, Franck and Alain Coelhoadie. Marcel Proust: Remembrance of Publishers Past

  •   on the difficulties in getting Recherché published.

 

 


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     Biographies

Carter, William C. Marcel Proust:  A Life    
Tadie, Jean-Yves. Marcel Proust: A Life
  • highly praised       
White, Edmund. Marcel Proust
  • a brief, witty, focused account    

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    Audio-Visual
 

Time Regained  

  • DVD

  • beautifully filmed rendition, by Chilean director Raoul Ruiz      

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    Proustiana

  

De Bottom, Alain. How Proust can Change your Life: Not a Novel
  • combination of biography and literary analysis in the format of a self-help book.
  • audio cassette (abridged)
      
Huet, Stephane. Marcel Proust:  Remembrance of Things Past - Combray
  • comic strip version, in English. of the French best-seller
      
Huet, Stephane. Marcel Proust: Remembrance of Things Past - Within a Budding Grove
  • comic strip versions of the novel
       
Monbrun, Estelle. Murder Chez Proust
  • Agatha Christie style mystery
  • written under a pseudonym, by the editor of The Friends of Marcel Proust and Combray Society Bulletin
      
Pinter, Harold. The Proust Screenplay
  • cinematic adaptation by the major twentieth century playwright
          
Rose, Phyllis. The Year of Reading Proust: A Memoir in Real Time
  • personal memoir with Proust as its guiding sprit 
         

  
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