Fiction of Gay Interest

Pleasures and Regrets
Marcel Proust trans Louise Varese, preface D J Enright
Publisher: Grafton
London, UK

Year


1988       
Cover / size: Paperback, h 19.7 cm * w 13 cm / 221 pp

Dustjacket?   n/a

ISBN: n/a

Arbery Ref:   001077

Condition Very Good

Cover: very slight marking; very slight wear / denting to edges; slight curling of corners; spine unbroken. Stain on page 207 (printing error?) Pages yellowing but otherwise clean.

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Pleasures and Regrets was Marcel Proust's first book. Further description on back cover.



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Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time; earlier translated as Remembrance of Things Past). It was published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927.
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