Remembrance of Things Past, Vol. 2 (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) Travelogues & Travel Essays at the height of the

at the height of the war

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an American adventure guide

Henry observes each member of the family

a strange boy who is fascinated with snakes—all while keeping an eye out for ways to help the world

Remembrance of Things Past, Vol. 2 (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) Travelogues & Travel Essays at the height of theMarcel Proust (1871 1922) spent the last fourteen years of his life writing A la recherche du temps perdu. It is an intimate epic, an excavation of the self, and a comedy of manners by turns and all at once. Proust is the twentieth century's Dante, presenting us with a unique, unsettling picture of ourselves as jealous lovers and unmitigated snobs, frittering our lives away, with only the hope of art as a possible salvation. He offers us a form of