The Lemoine Affair (The Art of the Novella)
by Marcel Proust
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- VG
- ISBN 10
- 1933633417
- ISBN 13
- 9781933633411
- Seller
-
Seattle, Washington, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Synopsis
Marcel Proust was born in the Parisian suburb of Auteuil in 1971 to well-to-do parents. As a child he developed severe asthma and was closely watched over by his mother in what became a neurotically dependent relationship (he would live with her until her death when he was 35). Graduating from the prestigious École des Sciences Politiques, he worked briefly as a lawyer, but soon became better known as a relentless social climber who wrote occasionally. However, upon the death of his mother—and his inheritance of a fortune worth millions—Proust abandoned high society. Dedicating himself to writing, he retreated into the bedroom of his Paris apartment, which he had lined with cork soundproofing so he could sleep all day and write all night. His reputation, however, clouded his new seriousness, and no one would publish the first installment of his seven-volume, stream-of-consciousness novel Remembrance of Things Past . (André Gide, then an editor at Gallimard, called it too “snobbish.”) Proust thereby published it himself to great success. His fame as a modernist master grew with each subsequent installment, but his health simultaneously declined, and the final three volumes were published after his death in 1922 of pneumonia. Charlotte Mandell has won the Modern Language Association Prize in translation. Among other titles she has translated for The Art of The Novella series are Gustave Flaubert’s A Simple Heart , Guy de Maupassant's The Horla and Honoré de Balzac’s The Girl with the Golden Eyes .
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Magus Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1099173
- Title
- The Lemoine Affair (The Art of the Novella)
- Author
- Marcel Proust
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1933633417
- ISBN 13
- 9781933633411
- Publisher
- The Art of the Novella
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- February 2008
- Pages
- 100
Terms of Sale
Magus Books
Please call 206-633-1800 or email magus@seanet.com with questions regarding any item or order. We accept payment by Visa, Mastercard, Discover, and check. All items may be returned within one week of receipt if not as described for full refund of purchase price with prior notification. All items will be shipped within 3 business days of receipt of order via USPS media mail. Shipping costs are based on items weighing 1 kg (2.2 US lbs.) or less. International orders and expedited shipping may be charged extra for larger items. Orders shipped within the state of WA will be charged local sales tax. No dealer discounts for online sales.
About the Seller
Magus Books
About Magus Books
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Trade Paperback
- Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.