title: Letters of Marcel Proust
author: Marcel Proust
description: Precocious, charming, and manipulative at age 16, Proust writes in a postscript to an 1888 letter, "I don't dare reread what I have written at full speed. I know very well one shouldn't write at full speed. But I have so much to say. It surges like a tide." Prescient words from a writer whose scintillating correspondence eventually filled 21 volumes. <i>Letters of Marcel Proust,</i> a wonderfully revealing and usefully edited selected collection first published in 1948 and now revisited, brings Proust and all his familial and societal maneuverings vividly to light. As Adam Gopnik writes in his introduction, here is the true story of how a "social butterfly became a literary caterpillar."<P> <i>Donna Seaman</i><br><i>Copyright &#169; American Library Association. All rights reserved</i>
zlib_text: MARCEL PROUST 
  Selected Letters 
  1918-1922 
  
  �IARCEL 
  PROUST 
  Selected Letters 
  VOLUME 4 
  1918-1922 
  Edited by Philip Kolb 
  Translated with an Introduction by 
  Joanna Kilmartin 
  Foreword by 
  Alain de Botton 
  Afterword by 
  Jocelyne Kolb 
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  HarperCollinsPublishers 
  
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  First published in 2000 by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 
  Correspondance de Marcel Proust Volumes XVII, XVIII, XIX, XX, XXI, 
  edited by Philip Kolb, copyright© Librairie Pion 1989, 1990, 1991, 199z, 1993 
  English Translation copyright© HarperCollins 2000 
  Introduction copyright© Joanna Kilmartin 2000 
  Foreword copyright© Alain de Botton 2000 
  Afterword copyright© Jocelyne Kolb 2000 
  A catalogue record for this book is available from 
  the British Library 
  ISBN 0 00 z5703z 7 
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