Pleasures and Days

Marcel Proust

Original title: Pleasures and days

Translated by Andrew Brown earliest edition we have, 2004 Hesperus Press, 2004 paperback 194 pages

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"Taking as his setting the glamour and heady sophistication of fin-de-siecle. Parisian salon society, Proust here presents a series of sketches and short stories depicting the lives, love, manners and motivations of a host of characters. Amorous entanglements, idle vanities and feigned morality are all viewed with a characteristically knowing eye. By turns cuttingly satirical and bitterly moving, Proust's portrayals...

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Andrew Brown 1 printing we hold · 2004 · Hesperus Press

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