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The long-awaited fifth volume--representing'the very summit of Proust's art'(Slate)--in the acclaimed Penguin translation of'the greatest literary work of the twentieth century'(The New York Times)A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with flaps and deckle-edged paperCarol Clark's acclaimed translation of The Prisoner introduces a new generation of American readers to the literary riches of Marcel Proust. The fifth volume in Penguin Classics'superb new edition of In Search of Lost Time--the first completely new translation of Proust's masterpiece since the 1920s--brings us a more comic and lucid prose than readers of English have previously been able to enjoy.The titular'prisoner'is Albertine, the tall, dark orphan with whom Marcel had fallen in love at the end of Sodom and Gomorrah (volume 4). Albertine has moved in with Marcel in his family's apartment in Paris, where the pair have a seemingly limitless supply of money and are chaperoned only by Marcel's judgmental family servant, Françoise. Marcel, who worries obsessively about Albertine's relationships with other women, grows more and more irrational in his attempts to control her, keeping her prisoner in his apartment and buying

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Author

Marcel Proust, Clark, Carol, Christopher Prendergast

Publisher

Penguin Classics

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780525505396

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Collections, Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.6 / 5 (62 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14