In Search Of Lost Time, Volume II (2000) - Plot & Excerpts
The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foundation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hardbound editions of important works of literature and thought. For the Modern Library’s seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torchbearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inaugurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world’s best books, at the best prices. IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME About the Book “It is marvelously about life. It reminds me of Dickens, Shakespeare, Molière. Proust was, among other things, one of the greatest comic writers of all time.” —TERENCE KILMARTIN Within a Budding Grove received the Prix Goncourt when it was published in 1919 and catapulted its author to overnight fame.
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