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What would Marcel make of the Kindle?
Amazon.com and the publishers have made a royal mess out of the dueling
translations of In Search of Lost Time. You just can't trust what
you read on the Amazon website, which mixes and matches translations, and
even confuses one volume with another. However, I have tested all the
links below. As always, I recommend the Penguin translations, although
they've recently been cut back to the first four volumes as far as the
American resident is concerned.
Kindle editions
are now available in Amazon's British storefront, so I have linked to them
below where the books have been listed. Alas, Americans
can't buy ebooks from the UK store.
The Penguin Proust
Vol. 1 -
Swann's Way
(Lydia Davis, translator) Also available as The Way by Swann's in
Britain
Vol. 2 -
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (James Grieve, translator)
Also available in Britain
Vol. 3 -
The Guermantes Way (Mark Treharne, translator)
Also available in Britain
Vol. 4 -
Sodom and Gomorrah (John Sturrock, translator)
Also available in Britain
Vol. 5 -
The Prisoner / The Fugitive (Carol Clark / Peter Collier, translators).
Only available in Britain.
Vol. 6 -
Finding Time Again (Ian Patterson, translator). Only available in Britain.
Modern Library translations
Vol. 1 -
Swann's Way
Vol. 2 -
Within a Budding Grove
Vol. 3 -
The Guermantes Way
Vol. 4 -
Sodom and Gomorrah
Vol. 5 - The Captive / The Fugitive
Vol. 6 -
Time Regained / A Guide to Proust
Also of interest
À
la recherche du temps perdu - The 1920s French editions are now in the
public domain at a very reasonable price.
Also available in Britain
Remembrance
of Things Past in the original translations is likewise in the public
domain, and an ambitious publisher has rendered it into a very good e-book
with the modern title for 99 cents for all the entire work.
The 14-Minute Marcel Proust: Everyone's guide to the greatest novel
ever written (this website, basically)
Also available in Britain
Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time: A Reader's Guide to The Remembrance of Things Past
(Patrick Alexander)
Also available in Britain
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1. Swann's Way
| 2. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
| 3. The Guermantes Way
| 4. Sodom and Gomorrah
| 5. The Prisoner
| 6. The Fugitive
| 7. Finding Time Again
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