Remembrance of Things Past, Vol. 2 (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature)

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Remembrance of Things Past, Vol. 2 (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature)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, presenting us with a unique, unsettling picture of ourselves as jealous lovers and unmitigated snobs, frittering our lives away, with only the hope of art as a possible salvation. He offers us a form of

While other young marrieds

and fought hard: Kitty Kincaid must rely on her wits to survive capture by a deadly enemy in a faraway land

Cather drew deeply on her childhood days in frontier Nebraska for her fourth novel

always between time zones

the prequel and book 1 of the Artifacts Cycle together in one volume

climatic changes have brought constant winter to the once-industrialized West

to the latest

The kitten replies that it is all in his journal

Bursting with the good humor

which also features a history of the play on stage

Mater's determined to get his letter to Santa

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