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10 best books like The Captive & The Fugitive (Marcel Proust): Chariots of Fire, La Curée, Selected Letters, A Harlot High and Low, The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers, Paintings in Proust: A Visual Companion to In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust: A Life, Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time: A Reader's Guide to the Remembrance of Things Past, For Whom the Bell Tolls (Sparknotes Literature Guides), Proust's Way: A Field Guide to In Search of Lost Time

Chariots of Fire
AuthorWilliam J. Weatherby
ISBN0060692820
The story of two men—Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell—who run not to run but to prove something to the world. They will sacrifice anything to achieve their goals, except their honor.

Two men, Abrahams and Liddell, one a Jew who runs to triumph over bigotry, the other a Scots missionary who...
La Curée
AuthorÉmile Zola
ISBN2253003662
A la fin d’une chasse, pendant la curée, les chiens dévorent les entrailles de la bête tuée. Pour le jeune Zola, qui déteste son époque, c’est le cœur de Paris, entaillé par les larges avenues de Napoléon III, que des spéculateurs véreux s’arrachent. Ce deuxième volume des Rougon-Macquart,...
Selected Letters
AuthorMarie de Rabutin-Chantal de Sévigné
One of the world's greatest correspondents, Madame de Sevigne (1626-96) paints an extraordinarily vivid picture of France at the time of Louis XIV, in eloquent letters written throughout her life to family and friends. A significant figure in French society and literary circles, whose close friends...
A Harlot High and Low
AuthorHonoré de Balzac
ISBN0140442324
Why should anyone care about Esther, a prostitute from a young age, a harlot with powers over men? Why should anyone care about a spoiled feeble individual such as Lucien, the poet whose ambitions are to secure a noble title and live in luxury for the rest of his life? The same Lucien who, by the way, in Lost...
The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers
AuthorVirginia Spencer Carr
ISBN0820325228
The Lonely Hunter is widely accepted as the standard biography of Carson McCullers. Author of such landmarks of modern American fiction as Reflections in a Golden Eye and The Ballad of the Sad Café, Carson McCullers was the enfant terrible of the literary world of the 1940s and 1950s. Gifted but tormented,...
Paintings in Proust: A Visual Companion to In Search of Lost Time
AuthorEric Karpeles
ISBN0500238545
A la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust is one of the most profoundly visual works in Western literature. Not only are there frequent references to specific works of art, but certain characters are also evoked by comparison to particular paintings. Bloch’s appearance as a boy is likened to...
Marcel Proust: A Life
AuthorWilliam C. Carter
ISBN0300081456
This book is a magisterial account of the life and times of Marcel Proust, one of the greatest literary voices of the twentieth century. Based on a host of recently available letters, memoirs, and manuscripts, it sheds new light on Proust's character, his development as an artist, and his masterpiece...
Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time: A Reader's Guide to the Remembrance of Things Past
AuthorPatrick Alexander
ISBN0307472329
An accessible, irreverent guide to one of the most admired--and entertaining--novels of the past century: Rememberance of Things Past. There is no other guide like this; a user-friendly and enticing entry into the marvelously enjoyable world of Proust.

At seven volumes, three thousand...
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Sparknotes Literature Guides)
AuthorSparkNotes
ISBN1586638300
Spark Publishing’s Literature Guides are celebrating their 5th Anniversary!  To celebrate this, we’re giving our TOP 50 a revamp by adding some exciting new features.

There will be sixteen pages devoted to writing a literary essay including: Glossary of literary terms, Step by...
Proust's Way: A Field Guide to In Search of Lost Time
AuthorRoger Shattuck
ISBN0393321800
For any reader who has been humbled by the language, the density, or the sheer weight of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, Roger Shattuck is a godsend. Winner of the National Book Award for Marcel Proust, a sweeping examination of Proust's life and works, Shattuck now offers a useful and eminently...
Monsieur Proust's Library
AuthorAnka Muhlstein
ISBN1590515668
Reading was so important to Marcel Proust that it sometimes seems he was unable to create a fictional personage without a book in hand. Two hundred of his creatures inhabit his fictional world, and sixty writers hover over them. These writers--among them various classical authors of the seventeenth...
Marcel Proust: A Life
AuthorJean-Yves Tadié
ISBN0141002034
Marcel Proust was arguably the greatest writer of the twentieth century. This fascinating, definitive biography by the premier world authority on Proust redefines the way we look at both the artist and the man. A bestseller in France, where it was originally published to great critical acclaim, Jean-Yves...
Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot, First Wife of T. S. Eliot
AuthorCarole Seymour-Jones
ISBN0385499930
This astonishing portrait of Vivienne Eliot, first wife of poet T.S. Eliot, gives a voice to the woman who, for seventeen years, had shared a unique literary partnership with Eliot but who was scapegoated for the failure of the marriage and all but obliterated from historical record. In so doing, Painted...
Marcel Proust
AuthorEdmund White
ISBN0670880574
Conveniently concise. Enough to sketch you in on the main question marks over Proust the man: his Jewishness, his friendships, his relationships, his health, his writing. White portrays his infamous snobbishness as somewhat tempered by compassion, and counters the legend of ivory tower incarceration...
The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
AuthorDaniel Defoe
ISBN0809594625
Defoe was a prolific and versatile writer, producing more than five hundred books, pamphlets, and journals on various topics, including politics, crime, religion, marriage, psychology, and the supernatural. We set out on the 5th of February from Ireland, and had a very fair gale of wind for some days....
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady - Volume 1
AuthorSamuel Richardson
2133 pages, consisting of 536 letters (plus conclusion and author's postscript) all cross-referenced - the author must have been a madman. A madman with an impressive filing system.

This is the kind of book that draws you in slowly but completely, with not much happening most of the time. So...
Monsieur Proust
AuthorCéleste Albaret
ISBN1590170598
Céleste Albaret was Marcel Proust's housekeeper in his last years, when he retreated from the world to devote himself to In Search of Lost Time. She could imitate his voice to perfection, and Proust himself said to her, "You know everything about me." Her reminiscences of her employer present an intimate...
Blind Man with a Pistol
AuthorChester Himes
ISBN0394759982
At once grotesquely comic and unflinchingly violent, Blind Man With a Pistol is the final entry in Chester Himes's trailblazing Harlem Detectives series.
 
New York is sweltering in the summer heat, and Harlem is close to the boiling point. To Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones,...
Proust and Signs: The Complete Text
AuthorGilles Deleuze
The essential work on Proust, in a complete English translation for the first time.

What is the nature of the search in A la recherche du temps perdu ?It is not quite so simple as the English rendering of the title of Proust's masterpiece: In Search of Lost Time. In a remarkable instance of literary...
Tom Jones: Volume 1
AuthorHenry Fielding
ISBN0460003550
Ισως το απολαυστικοτερο μυθιστορημα που εχω διαβασει. ενα βιβλιο γεματο αισιοδοξα μηνυματα,με τη γραφη του Φιλντινγκ να σε εντυπωσιαζει καθε λεπτο....
The Rise of Life on Earth
AuthorJoyce Carol Oates
ISBN0811212130
Selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the most notable books of 1991, Joyce Carol Oates's The Rise of Life on Earth is a memorable portrait of one of the "insulted and injured" of American society. Set in the underside of working-class Detroit of the '60s and '70s, this short, lyric novel sketches...
Main Street / Babbitt
AuthorSinclair Lewis
ISBN0940450615
In Main Street and Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis drew on his boyhood memories of Sauk Centre, Minnesota, to reveal as no writer had done before the complacency and conformity of middle-class life in America. The remarkable novels presented here in this Library of America volume combine brilliant satire...
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