{"product_id":"remembrance-of-things-past-volume-i-swanns-way-within-a-budding-grove-9780394711829","title":"Remembrance of Things Past, Volume I: Swann's Way \u0026 Within a Budding Grove","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the French intellectual, novelist, essayist, and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century: The first two volumes of his monumental achievement, \u003ci\u003eSwann's Way\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWithin a Budding Grove. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarcel Proust's masterpiece is one of the towering literary works of the twentieth century. Relating its narrator's experiences in Belle Epoque France as he grows up, falls in love, and lives through the First World War, it has mesmerized generations of readers with its profound reflections on art, time, and memory. C. K. Scott Moncrieff's original English translation was heralded as an artistic achievement in its own right; the later revisions to it by Terence Kilmartin were based on the definitive French Pleiade edition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMARCEL PROUST was born in 1871 in Auteuil, near Paris, France. His seven-volume novel, \u003ci\u003eÀ la recherche du temps perdu\u003c\/i\u003e (known in English as \u003ci\u003eIn Search of Lost Time\u003c\/i\u003e), which explores themes of memory, became one of the most famous and influential works of twentieth-century literature. Proust continued to work on the novel until his death in 1922.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50627683352850,"sku":"9780394711829","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_29be6c75-5fa6-4d11-b6a7-18553132f3fc.jpg?v=1732708385","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/remembrance-of-things-past-volume-i-swanns-way-within-a-budding-grove-9780394711829","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}