A Reader's Guide to Marcel Proust

First edition. Crown 8vo. Pp. x, 275, [3 (blank)]. Prefatory Note, Appendix, Bibliographical Postscript, Index. Bound in a mustard-coloured cloth, lettered in gilt to spine with publisher's device to upper board. Folded steel grey dustwrapper, printed in black.

Top edge dusty, dustwrapper partially sunned, especially to spine, else Fine.

A volume in the Thames and Hudson's Readers' Guides series. A detailed analysis of the interweaving of motifs, characters and themes in Proust's seminal magnum opus, À la recherche du temps perdu (1913 – 1927), beginning with the lulling phrase "Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure." Preceded by The Proustian Vision, published by Columbia University Press in 1954.