Marcel proust

Author(s): Marcel Proust [ed, Germaine Bree and Carlos Lynes Jr.]  Title:         Combray [the first part of "A la Recherche du Temps Perdu"]  ISBN: n/a  Publisher:  George G. Harrap and co Ltd  This Edition:  reprint 1962 of first British edition (1955)  Place Of Publication: Great Britain  First Published: 1913 (France)  Binding: hardcover  Dustjacket: none/missing  Number of pages: 253 Weight:309g  Condition: Cover cloths are slightly faded, has been inscribed.  Else in fine condition.  Please see pictures below, as these form part of the description.   

 Softcover. 446pp. Black & white photos. Award winning biography about the French author.    

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days Features Author John Gaywood Linn Publisher Ohio State University Press Release date 20151218 Pages 286 ISBN 0-8142-5336-9 ISBN 13 978-0-8142-5336-6

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our understanding of time itself.Gleick's story begins at the turn of the twentieth century with the young H. G. Wells writing and rewriting the fantastic tale that became his first book, an international sensation, The Time Machine. A host of forces were converging to transmute the human understanding of time, some philosophical and some technological - the electric telegraph, the steam railroad, the discovery of buried civilisations, and the perfection of clocks. Gleick tracks the evolution of time travel as an idea in the culture - from Marcel Proust to Doctor Who, from Woody Allen to Jorge Luis Borges. He explores the inevitable looping paradoxes and examines the porous boundary between pulp fiction and modern physics. Finally, he delves into a temporal shift that is unsettling our own moment: the instantaneous wired world, with its all-consuming present and vanishing future. Features Summary From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science... Author James Gleick Publisher Fourth Estate Release date 20170223 Pages 336 ISBN 0-00-754443-X ISBN 13 978-0-00-754443-1