Marcel Proust: A Biography

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CONTENTS Preface to New Edition Page xiii Preface to First Edition XVll VOLUME I The Garden of Auteuil^1 2 The Garden of Illiers ...

VOLUME I I Visits from Albertine (December 1903-December 1904) 2 Death of a Mother (January-December 1905) 3 The Watershed (Dece ...

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Front endpapers Plan of Illiers and The Country round Illiers Between pages ,68 and , (Volume I) , Portrai ...

Betweenpages lIS and 119 (yolume II) 21 Mme Proust, photographed by Nadar. 22 Proust at Venice, May 1900. 23 The Grand Hotel at ...

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PREFACE TO NEW EDITION T HIS biography of Marcel Proust was first published in English and American editions in two separate vol ...

xvi MARCEL PROUST destroyed at Proust's command by Celeste Albaret, or in the holocaust of'manuscripts of which no other copy ex ...

PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION B ELIEVING that the published sources are now adequate in quantity and quality, but that the subject ha ...

xviii MARCEL PROUST this study, which is an attempt to interpret Proust's great novel, to discuss the external facts of his life ...

PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION xix novel only what it means to themselves. It is surely relevant to learn what the novel meant to the ...

xx MARCEL PROUST deficient in or indifferent to Fancy; but he was among the greatest masters of Imagination. It would be equally ...

PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION xxi stories in Les Plaisirs et les Jours and Jean Santeuil, and of a few points elsewhere, could not be ...

xxii MARCEL PROUST I have dedicated this first volume to Henry Reed, my friend of more than thirty years, with whom I first read ...

VOLUME ONE Le tomheau d' Albertine est pres de man herceau MARCELINE DESBORDES-VALMORE ...