The Guermantes Way: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 3 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Ed

<b>The third volume of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century</b> <p/>Mark Treharne's acclaimed new translation of <i>The Guermantes Way </i>will introduce a new generation of American readers to the literary richness of Marcel Proust. The third volume in Penguin Classics' superb new edition of <i>In Search of Lost Time--</i>the first completely new translation of Proust's masterpiece since the 1920s--brings us a more comic and lucid prose than English readers have previously been able to enjoy. <p/>After the relative intimacy of the first two volumes of <i>In Search of Lost Time</i>, <i>The Guermantes Way</i> opens up a vast, dazzling landscape of fashionable Parisian life in the late nineteenth century, as the narrator enters the brilliant, shallow world of the literary and aristocratic salons. Both a salute to and a devastating satire of a time, place, and culture, <i>The Guermantes Way</i> defines the great tradition of novels that follow the initiation of a young man into the ways of the world.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Marcel Proust<br><b>Publisher:</b> Penguin Group<br><b>Published:</b> 05/31/2005<br><b>Pages:</b> 640<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 1.46lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.42h x 5.52w x 1.64d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780143039228<br><b>Age Range:</b> 18-UP<br><br><b>Review Citation(s): </b><br><i>Ingram Advance</i> 06/01/2005 pg. 74<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><b>Marcel Proust </b>(1871&shy;-1922) was born in Auteuil, France. In his twentie