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The complete short stories of Marcel Proust / compiled and translated by Joachim Neugroschel ; foreword by Roger Shattuck.
LIBRA Special PQ2631.R63 A265 2001
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Van Pelt Library PQ2631.R63 A265 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922.
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922--Translations into English.
- Proust, Marcel.
- Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 201 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Cooper Square Press edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Cooper Square Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- Collected here is the first new translation in half a century of Marcel Proust's collection Pleasures and Days, as well as six stories translated into English for the first time. Together they comprise a winning composite portrait of early twentieth-century Parisian street, salon, and bedroom scenes, and explore Proust's pet themes of vanity, sexual mores, mortality, and the malleability of time.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0815411367
- OCLC:
- 45466150
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