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Book SynopsisThe 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
