Walter de la Mare
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Walter John de la Mare was an English poet, short story writer and novelist. He is probably best remembered for his works for children, for his poem "The Listeners", and for his psychological horror s
Photo of Walter de la Mare by Lady Ottoline Morrell
De la Mare with W. B. Yeats and others (photo by Lady Ottoline Morrell)
In Search of Lost Time
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In Search of Lost Time, first translated into English as Remembrance of Things Past, and sometimes referred to in French as La Recherche, is a novel in seven volumes by French author Marcel Proust. Th
A first galley proof of À la recherche du temps perdu: Du côté de chez Swann with Proust's handwritten corrections
NRF edition of Du côté de chez Swann, 1917
1923 edition of La Prisonnière. It is labelled as "Tome VI" as Sodom et Gomorrhe was originally published in two volumes.
Illiers, the country town overlooked by a church steeple where Proust spent time as a child and which he described as "Combray" in the novel. The town adopted the name Illiers-Combray in homage.