The Guermantes Way

The Guermantes Way

In Search of Lost Time, Volume 3 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

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The third volume of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century

Mark Treharne's acclaimed new translation of The Guermantes Way 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 In Search of Lost Time—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.

After the relative intimacy of the first two volumes of In Search of Lost Time, The Guermantes Way 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, The Guermantes Way defines the great tradition of novels that follow the initiation of a young man into the ways of the world.
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Praise for The Guermantes Way

"The latest in the adventurous and expert new edition of In Search of Lost Time ...The colloquial accents of Treharne’s lucid English version illuminate such contrasts in ways perhaps not quite managed by the stately cadences of C.K. Scott-Moncrieff’s first English translation." -- Kirkus Reviews
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In Search of Lost Time Series

Finding Time Again
The Fugitive
The Prisoner
Sodom and Gomorrah
The Guermantes Way
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
Swann's Way

About the Author

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. More by Marcel Proust
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Mark Treharne
Mark Treharne taught French at the University of Warwick and has since worked as a translator. His translations include the work of Philippe Jaccottet and Jacques Reda’s The Ruins of Paris. More by Mark Treharne
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Christopher Prendergast
Christopher Prendergast is a professor emeritus in French and a Fellow of the British Academy. He has contribued to Adventures in Grammarland, In The Shadow of Young Girls in Flower: In Search of Lost Time, Mirages and Mad Beliefs: Proust the Skeptic, Septembers, and many more.  More by Christopher Prendergast
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Mark Treharne
Mark Treharne taught French at the University of Warwick and has since worked as a translator. His translations include the work of Philippe Jaccottet and Jacques Reda’s The Ruins of Paris. More by Mark Treharne
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About the Author

Mark Treharne
Mark Treharne taught French at the University of Warwick and has since worked as a translator. His translations include the work of Philippe Jaccottet and Jacques Reda’s The Ruins of Paris. More by Mark Treharne
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