Neville Jason
1) The Captive
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The Captive is the first volume of the section within In Search of Lost Time known as "le Roman d'Albertine" ("the Albertine novel"). The name "Albertine" first appears in Proust's notebooks in 1913. The material in volumes 5 and 6 were developed during the hiatus between the publication of volumes 1 and 2 and they are a departure of the original three-volume series originally planned by Proust. This is the first of Proust's books published posthumously.
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Once and future king volume 4
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An omnibus edition of four novels: The Sword in the Stone (1939), The Witch in the Wood (1939, now called The Queen of Air and Darkness) and The Ill-Made Knight (1940). A number of alterations have been made in the earlier books. Previously unpublished, The Candle in the Wind 'deals with the plotting of Mordred and his kinsmen of the house of Orkney, and their undying enmity to King Arthur.
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In search of lost time volume 2
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Within a Budding Grove was scheduled to be published in 1914 but was delayed by the onset of World War I.
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After the relative intimacy of the first two volumes of In Search of Lost Time, The Guermantes Way opens up a vast, dazzling landscape of fashionable Parisian life in the late nineteenth century, as the narrator enters the brilliant, shallow world of the literary and aristocratic salons. Both a salute to and a devastating satire of a time, place, and culture, The Guermantes Way defines the great tradition of novels that follow the initiation of a...
6) Swann's way
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In Swann's Way, the themes of Proust's masterpiece are introduced, and the narrator's childhood in Paris and Combray is recalled, most memorably in the evocation of the famous maternal good-night kiss. The recollection of the narrato'.s love for Swann's daughter Gilberte leads to an account of Swann's passion for Odette and the rise of the nouveaux riches Verdurins. --from Amazon.
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Brother William's search for heresy in a 14th-century Italian abbey is interrupted by seven bizarre deaths in seven terrifying days.
In 1327, Brother William of Baskerville is sent to investigate charges of heresy against Franciscan monks at a wealthy Italian abbey but finds his mission overshadowed by seven bizarre murders.
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