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A new translation of the French writer's work on fashionable Parisian life in the late nineteenth century takes readers into the vivid and shallow sides of the period's literary and aristocratic salons, where a young man is initiated into the insidious ways of the world.
22) South wind
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Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
[1925]
Physical Desc
447 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
26) Swann's way
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English
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Swann's way tells two related stories, the first of which revolves around Marcel, a younger version of the narrator, and his experiences in, and memories of, the French town Combray. Inspired by the "gusts of memory" that rise up within him as he dips a Madeleine into hot tea, the narrator discusses his fear of going to bed at night. He is a creature of habit and dislikes waking up in the middle of the night not knowing where he is. He claims that...
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Meet Sam Dodsworth, an amiable fifty-year-old millionaire and "American Captain of Industry, believing in the Republican Party, high tariffs and, so long as they did not annoy him personally, in Prohibition and the Episcopal Church." Dodsworth runs an auto manufacturing firm, but his beautiful wife, Fran, obsessed with the notion that she is growing old, persuades him to sell his interest in the company and take her to Europe. He agrees for the
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Matthew Bramble, a gout-ridden misanthrope, travels Britain with his nephew, niece, spinster sister and man-servant, the trusty Humphry Clinker. In poor health, Bramble sees the world as one of degeneracy and raucous overcrowding, and will not hesitate to let his companions know his feelings on the matter. Peopled with pimps, drunkards, decadents and con-men, Humphrey Clinker displays Smollett's ferociously pessimistic view of mankind, and his belief...
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Series
Modern library of the world's best books volume 50
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
[1932]
Physical Desc
x, 448 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
34) Aphrodite
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Publisher
The Modern library
Pub. Date
[1933]
Physical Desc
xviii, 264 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
35) Penguin Island
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Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
[1933]
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xvi, 295 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
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