Author: SHATTUCK, ROGER
Title: Proust's Way: A Field Guide to in Search of Lost Time
Description: New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0393049140. First edition, first printing with full number line on copyright page. Literary critic, educator and Marcel Proust scholar Roger Shattuck presents an in-depth look at Proust's enduring classic series "A la Recherche du Temps Perdu," usually translated as "In Search of Lost Time" or as "Remembrance of Things Past." The author maintains that Proust should be ".read as carefully as a detective story, in which every detail becomes a clue to something else." With a black & white frontis image of Proust at an outdoor banquet of some sort. With a facsimile of Proust's corrections to "Du Côté de chez Swann" to endpapers. --- In brown and tan paper-covered boards with spine titling in copper foil. Volume wrapped in jacket with image of a book to cover. --- A clean, tightly-bound, bright copy lacking apparent damages. Unclipped jacket ($26.95) also bright and newish.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; xxiv, 290, [2] pages. Fine in Fine dust jacket .

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