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Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust was born in the Parisian suburb of Auteuil on July 10, 1871. He began work on In Search of Lost Time sometime around 1908, and the first volume, Swann’s Way, was published in 1913. In 1919 the second volume, Within a Budding Grove, won the Goncourt Prize, bringing Proust great and instantaneous fame. Two subsequent installments—The Guermantes Way (1920–21) and Sodom and Gomorrah (1921)—appeared in his lifetime. The remaining volumes were published following Proust’s death on November 18, 1922: The Captive in 1923, The Fugitive in 1925, and Time Regained in 1927.
Finding Time Again
The Fugitive
The Prisoner
Swann's Way
The Modern Library In Search of Lost Time, Complete and Unabridged 6-Book Bundle
Sodom and Gomorrah
The Guermantes Way
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
Swann's Way
In Search of Lost Time Volume V The Captive & The Fugitive
In Search of Lost Time Volume IV Sodom and Gomorrah
In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained
In Search of Lost Time Volume II Within a Budding Grove
In Search of Lost Time Volume III The Guermantes Way
In Search of Lost Time Volume I Swann's Way
Swann's Way
Remembrance of Things Past, Volume II
Remembrance of Things Past, Volume III
Remembrance of Things Past, Volume I

Books

Finding Time Again
The Fugitive
The Prisoner
Swann's Way
The Modern Library In Search of Lost Time, Complete and Unabridged 6-Book Bundle
Sodom and Gomorrah
The Guermantes Way
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
Swann's Way
In Search of Lost Time Volume V The Captive & The Fugitive
In Search of Lost Time Volume IV Sodom and Gomorrah
In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained
In Search of Lost Time Volume II Within a Budding Grove
In Search of Lost Time Volume III The Guermantes Way
In Search of Lost Time Volume I Swann's Way
Swann's Way
Remembrance of Things Past, Volume II
Remembrance of Things Past, Volume III
Remembrance of Things Past, Volume I

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