{"product_id":"the-guermantes-way","title":"The Guermantes Way","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe third volume of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMark Treharne's acclaimed new translation of \u003ci\u003eThe Guermantes Way \u003c\/i\u003ewill introduce a new generation of American readers to the literary richness of Marcel Proust. The third volume in Penguin Classics' superb new edition of \u003ci\u003eIn Search of Lost Time--\u003c\/i\u003ethe first completely new translation of Proust's masterpiece since the 1920s--brings us a more comic and lucid prose than English readers have previously been able to enjoy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter the relative intimacy of the first two volumes of \u003ci\u003eIn Search of Lost Time\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Guermantes Way\u003c\/i\u003e opens up a vast, dazzling landscape of fashionable Parisian life in the late nineteenth century, as the narrator enters the brilliant, shallow world of the literary and aristocratic salons. Both a salute to and a devastating satire of a time, place, and culture, \u003ci\u003eThe Guermantes Way\u003c\/i\u003e defines the great tradition of novels that follow the initiation of a young man into the ways of the world.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48845512278221,"sku":"9780143039228","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_1a60b718-49c4-4948-b55a-fa238784233a.jpg?v=1792776561","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/the-guermantes-way","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}