age ~68
from Miami, FL
Since the original, prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid Proust. IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME is one of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any langu...
Author
Marcel Proust
Binding
Paperback
Pages
576
Publisher
Penguin Books
ISBN #
0141180323
EAN Code
9780141180328
ISBN #
6
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is Proust’s spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, charged with the narrator’s memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside. At the heart of the story lie his relationships with his grandmother and with the Swann family. As a meditation on differe...
Author
Marcel Proust
Binding
Paperback
Pages
576
Publisher
Penguin Classics
ISBN #
0143039075
EAN Code
9780143039075
ISBN #
3
1967. Kenneth and Sandra know the world is changing. And they want some of it.Love, Love, Love takes on the baby boomer generation as it retires, and finds it full of trouble. Smoking, drinking, affectionate and paranoid, one couple journeys forty-years from initial burst to full bloom. The play fol...
Author
Mike Bartlett
Binding
Kindle Edition
Pages
137
Publisher
Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
ISBN #
10
Readers and reviewers in the United Kingdom have hailed the new translations of Proust as a major literary event. Soon to appear in the United States, Swann’s Way, along with the second volume of In Search of Lost Time, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, will introduce a new century of American...
Author
Marcel Proust
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
576
Publisher
Viking Adult
ISBN #
0670032778
EAN Code
9780670032778
ISBN #
9
Communication and language disorders are often considered from one particular point of view - either psychological or neurological. Danon-Boileau argues that this is a serious mistake. He emphasizes that a child's trouble can stem from a variety of causes: neurological problems similar to those of a...
Author
Laurent Danon-Boileau
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
288
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN #
0195175026
EAN Code
9780195175028
ISBN #
5
Jean-Louis Dessalles explores the co-evolutionary paths of biology, culture, and the great human edifice of language, linking the evolution of the language to the general evolutionary history of humankind. He provides searchingly original answers to such fundamental paradoxes as to whether we acquir...
Author
Jean-Louis Dessalles
Binding
Paperback
Pages
400
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN #
0199563462
EAN Code
9780199563463
ISBN #
2
1773
James Grieve ( translator ) " James Grieve ", M. D. Royal Society ( died 1773 ), was a translator, writer and physician
where he graduated M....
University of Edinburgh
Specialty:Translator
Area of science:Translation • Surgery
18th-century Scot • Fellow of the Royal Society
Activity:Scottish writer
Sport:Surgeon