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CONTENTS (partial list)
VOL. I
ABOUT, EDMOND, King of the Mountains
AINSWORTH, HARRISON, Tower of London
ANDERSEN, HANS, Improvisatore
APULEIUS, The Golden Ass
ARABIAN NIGHTS
AUCASSIN AND NICOLETTE
AUERBACH, BERTHOLD, On the Height
AUSTEN, JANE, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion
BALZAC, HONORÉ DE, Eugénie Grandet, Old Goriot, Magic Skin, Quest of the Absolute
BECKFORD, WILLIAM, History of the Caliph Vathek
BEHN, APHRA, Oroonoko
BERGERAC, CYRANO DE, Voyage to the Moon
BJORNSON, BJORNSTJERNE, Arne, In God’s Way
BLACK, WILLIAM, Daughter of Heth
BLACKMORE, R.D., Lorna Doone
BOCCACCIO, Decameron

…

VOL. VIII
SCOTT, SIR WALTER (Continued), Quentin Durward, Rob Roy, Talisman
SHELLEY, MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT, Frankenstein
SIDNEY, SIR PHILIP, Arcadia
SMOLLET, TOBIAS, Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle
STAËL, MME. DE, Corinne
STENDHAL (HENRI BEYLE), Chartreuse of Parma
STERNE, LAURENCE, Tristram Shandy
STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
SUE, EUGÈNE, Mysteries of Paris
SWIFT, JONATHAN, Gulliver’s Travels
THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE, Newcomes, Virginians, Vanity Fair
TOLSTOY, COUNT LYOF N, Anna Karenina
TROLLOPE, ANTHONY, The Warden, Barchester Towers
TURGENEV, IVAN, Fathers and Sons, A Nest of Nobles, Smoke
VERNE, JULES, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
WALPOLE, HORACE, Castle of Otranto
ZOLA, ÉMILE, Drink

Today it’s called ‘In Search of Lost Time’. Early in the last century it was ‘Remembrance of Things Past’. Under whatever title, and whichever translator, Proust’s gargantuan novel has baffled American readers for more than eighty years. Over the course of a year, Daniel Ford tackled the recent and lovely Penguin/Viking editions, blogging on the internet as he read. He devotes a short chapter to each of the novel’s seven books, introducing it with a two-minute plot synoposis–thus the fourteen minutes of the title. More than that, he ruminates on one or more of its highlights, compares the Penguin/Viking translations with the classic ones based on the work of C. K. Scott Moncrieff, and–gotcha!–points to errors in the text or translation. About 7,500 words.

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.