Simon Vance
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Language
English
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"A swashbuckling epic of chivalry, honor, and derring-do, it is set in France during the 1620s and richly populated with romantic heroes, unattainable heroines, kings, queens, cavaliers, and criminals in a whirl of adventure, espionage, conspiracy, murder, vengeance, love, scandal, and suspense. Dumas transforms major and minor historical figures into larger-than-life characters: the brave d'Artagnan, an impetuous young man in pursuit of glory; the...
2) Swann's way
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
xxiii, 468 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
English translation of the first installment of the French author's multi-volume autobiographical novel, published in 1913.
"This first book of Proust's supreme seven-volume masterpiece, A la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past), recalls the early youth of Charles Swann in the small provincial backwater of Combray as seen through the eyes of the narrator. It then shifts to Swann himself, now a man of fashion caught up in the glittering...