{"product_id":"monsieur-prousts-library-anka-muhlstein-9781635421880","title":"Monsieur Proust's Library: Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Birth of Marcel Proust","description":"\u003cp\u003eReading was so important to Marcel Proust that it sometimes seems he was unable to create a personage without a book in hand. Everybody in his work reads: servants and masters, children and parents, artists and physicians. The more sophisticated characters find it natural to speak in quotations. Proust made literary taste a means of defining personalities and gave literature an actual role to play in his novels.\u003cbr\u003e In this wonderfully entertaining book, scholar and biographer Anka Muhlstein, the author of \u003ci\u003eBalzac's Omelette, \u003c\/i\u003edraws out these themes in Proust's work and life, thus providing not only a friendly introduction to the momentous \u003ci\u003eIn Search of Lost Time, \u003c\/i\u003ebut also exciting highlights of some of the finest work in French literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anka Muhlstein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1635421888\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781635421880\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Other Press (NY)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/06\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.60d","brand":"Anka Muhlstein","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44046860484863,"sku":"9781635421880","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2fafbdef-5ebe-4076-9b43-9695eddca5c1.jpg?v=1684986903","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/monsieur-prousts-library-anka-muhlstein-9781635421880","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}