The novel's seven volumes narrate the Narrator's long gestation of a novel whose undertaking he continuously defers for the sake of more pressing preoccupations, until, threatened by old age and death, he will eventually heed his calling. Written over more than a decade and considerably altered by the outbreak of the First World War and its author's tragic experience of love and loss, À la recherche du temps perdu "is a work of formidable complexity, both in its radically new conception of time and narrative and in its penetrating analysis of history, man and society. First Printing in English (not to be confused with the more common Phoenix Library edition published by Chatto & Windus in 1929). Exceptional examples, tightly bound and clean throughout. Engraved armorial book plate to front paste-downs of Charlotte Bostwick Lovett (1822-1900), Philadelphia philanthropist. Publisher's slate blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, top edges stained blue, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. Parts Three and Four (complete in two volumes) of this masterpiece of modernity, "a milestone in the study of human consciousness and a revolution in the history of prose writing." (Literary Encyclopedia) Translated from the original French by C.
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