Marcel Proust

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  • Bibliography:
    32 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1970
  • Latest Book:
    December 2019
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Book List in Order: 32 titles

  • The Captive

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    At daybreak, my face still turned to the wall, and before I had seenabove the big inner curtains what tone the first streaks of lightassumed, I could already tell what sort of day it was. The firstsounds from the street had told me, according to whet...

  • The Sweet Cheat Gone

  • The Past Recaptured

  • Jean Santeuil

  • Remembrance of Things Past Volume 2

    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, p...

  • Remembrance of Things Past

    In Search of Lost Time (French: Ă€ la recherche du temps perdu) â€" previously also translated as Remembrance of Things Past â€" is a novel in seven volumes, written by Marcel Proust (1871â€"1922). It is considered to be his most prominent work, know...

  • Remembrance of Things Past Volume 3

  • The Captive & the Fugitive

    1. Time is a central concern for Proust, appearing first in the title and last as the final word of the novel. What is his vision of the past? Does he have a vision of the present? The future? Can the Narrator be said to be living in the past? Is he ...

  • In Search of Lost Time Vol 1

    In The Guermantes Way Proust's narrator recalls his initiation into the dazzling world of Parisian high society. Looking back over his time in the glamorous salons of the aristocracy, he satirises this shallow world and his own youthful infatuation w...



  • In Search of Lost Time Vol 2

    Time Regained, the final volume of In Search of Lost Time, begins in the bleak and uncertain years of World War I. Years later, after the war’s end, Proust’s narrator returns to Paris and reflects on time, reality, jealousy, artistic creation, an...

  • Proust on Art and Literature

    Essays foreshadowing the great themes of Remembrance of Things Past

    Beginning with the remarkable essay "Contre Saint-Beuve, " this surprising and stimulating critical collecti...

  • Pleasures and Regrets

  • Within a Budding Grove

    First published in 1919, Within a Budding Grove was awarded the Prix Goncourt, bringing the author immediate fame. In this second volume of In Search of Lost Time, the narrator turns from the childhood reminiscences of Swann’s Way to memories of hi...

  • Time Regained and A Guide to Proust

    Time Regained, the final volume of In Search of Lost Time, begins in the bleak and uncertain years of World War I. Years later, after the war’s end, Proust’s narrator returns to Paris and reflects on time, reality, jealousy, artistic creation, an...

  • Remembrance of Things Past, Part 2: Within a Budding Grove

    Proust, now a teenager, describes his first separation from his mother, a vacation taken in a high class beach resort in Normandy. Besides the fleeting visions of young girls, he also keenly observes, without acidity but detached amusement, the petty...

  • Complete Short Stories Of Marcel Proust

    One of the great literary figures of the modern age, French novelist Marcel Proust (1871-1922) probes the precarious mental and erotic nuances of love, the frail mysteries of time passing and time past in highly original, surprising tales. Includes a...

  • Swann's Way

    The first volume of Marcel Proust’s monumental masterpiece -- in the classic Scott Moncrieffâ€"Kilmartin translation -- is not only a perfect introduction to a literary landmark, it also stands on its own as one of the most sensitive renderings ...

  • In Search of Lost Time Vol 4

    Since the original, prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid Proust. IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME is one of the greatest, ...

  • In Search of Lost Time Vol 6

    Since the original, prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid Proust. IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME is one of the greatest, ...



  • In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

    The second volume of In Search of Lost Time, one of the greatest novels of the twentieth centuryJames Grieve's acclaimed new translation of In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower will introduce a new century of American readers to the literary riches...

  • The Guermantes Way

    An authoritative new edition of the third volume in Marcel Proust’s epic masterwork, In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust’s monumental seven-part novel In Search of Lost Time is considered by many to be the greatest novel of the twentieth centur...

  • Pleasures and Days

    A stunning volume of philosophical reflections, short narratives, and prose poems, Pleasures and Days provides an early glimpse into Proust’s genius as a collector of exquisitely poignant sensations and recollections. Set amid the salon society of ...

  • Sodom and Gomorrah

    The fourth volume of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth centuryJohn Sturrock's acclaimed new translation of Sodom and Gomorrah will introduce a new generation of American readers to the literary riches of Proust. The fourth volume in this su...

  • Swann's Way

    The initial part of the story focuses on the romantic life of a middle aged man named Swann. Proust has used poetic style of words to describe the nature and environment of France. His sentence structure is impressive and filled with searing, insight...

  • Lemoine Affair

    Their friend Marcel Proust had killed himself after the fall in diamond shares, a collapse that annihilated a part of his fortune.This is the first-ever translation into English of this startling tour-de-force by one of the twentieth century’s gre...

  • Days of Reading

    In these inspiring essays about why we read, Proust explores all the pleasures and trials that we take from books, as well as explaining the beauty of Ruskin and his work, and the joys of losing yourself in literature as a child. Throughout history, ...

  • Swann's Way

    In Search of Lost Time or Remembrance of Things Past (French: À la recherche du temps perdu) is a novel in seven volumes by Marcel Proust. His most prominent work, it is popularly known for its considerable length and the notion of involuntary memor...

  • Cities of the Plain

  • Swann's Way

    This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....



  • Time Regained

    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 become another Pompeii. Years later, after the war's end, Proust's narrator returns to Paris, where ...

  • In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

    Celebrated as a “literary gateway drug” to Proust’s masterpiece (NPR), the New York Timesâ€"best-selling graphic adaptation continues with this highly anticipated new volume.In what renowned translator Arthur Goldhammer called “a piano reduct...

  • In Search of Lost Time

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    1. Time is a central concern for Proust, appearing first in the title and last as the final word of the novel. What is his vision of the past? Does he have a vision of the present? The future? Can the Narrator be said to be living in the past? Is he ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Marcel Proust has published 32 books.

Marcel Proust does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, was published in December 2019.

The first book by Marcel Proust, The Captive, was published in January 1970.

No. Marcel Proust does not write books in series.
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