Book description
In these inspiring essays about why we read, Proust explores all the
pleasures and trials that we take from books, as well as explaining the
beauty of Ruskin and his work, and the joys of losing yourself in
literature as a child. Throughout history, some books have changed the
world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other.
They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have
enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives
- and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great
thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook
civilization and helped make us who we are. Marcel Proust (1871 -
1922) is now generally viewed as the greatest French novelist and
perhaps the greatest European novelist of the 20th century. He lived
much of his later life as a reclusive semi-invalid in a sound-proofed
flat in Paris giving himself over entirely to writing
In Search of Lost Time.
