In Search Of Time

Author : Dan Falk
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429987863
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Search of Time written by Dan Falk and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-01-05 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time surrounds us. It defines our experience of the world; it echoes through our every waking hour. Time is the very foundation of conscious experience. Yet as familiar as it is, time is also deeply mysterious. We cannot see, hear, smell, taste, or touch it. Yet we do feel it—or at least we think we feel it. No wonder poets, writers, philosophers, and scientists have grappled with time for centuries. In his latest book, award-winning science writer Dan Falk chronicles the story of how humans have come to understand time over the millennia, and by drawing from the latest research in physics, psychology, and other fields, Falk shows how that understanding continues to evolve. In Search of Time begins with our earliest ancestors' perception of time and the discoveries that led—with much effort—to the Gregorian calendar, atomic clocks, and "leap seconds." Falk examines the workings of memory, the brain's remarkable "bridge across time," and asks whether humans are unique in their ability to recall the past and imagine the future. He explores the possibility of time travel, and the paradoxes it seems to entail. Falk looks at the quest to comprehend the beginning of time and how time—and the universe—may end. Finally, he examines the puzzle of time's "flow," and the remarkable possibility that the passage of time may be an illusion. Entertaining, illuminating, and ultimately thought provoking, In Search of Time reveals what some of our most insightful thinkers have had to say about time, from Aristotle to Kant, from Newton to Einstein, and continuing with the brightest minds of today.

Author : Marcel Proust
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781987605587
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swann's Way written by Marcel Proust and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-04-07 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Search of Lost Time or Remembrance of Things Past (French: À la recherche du temps perdu) is a semi-autobiographical novel in seven volumes by Marcel Proust. His most prominent work, it is popularly known for its extended length and the notion of involuntary memory, the most famous example being the "episode of the madeleine". Still widely referred to in English as Remembrance of Things Past, the title In Search of Lost Time, a more accurate rendering of the French, has gained in usage since D.J. Enright's 1992 revision of the earlier translation by C.K. Scott-Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin. Swann's Way is the first volume.

Author : Marcel Proust
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust (Illustrated) written by Marcel Proust and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-17 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No library's complete without the classics! The first volume of Proust's seven-part novel "In Search of Lost Time," also known as "A Remembrance of Things Past," "Swann's Way" is the auspicious beginning of Proust's most prominent work. A mature, unnamed man recalls the details of his commonplace, idyllic existence as a sensitive and intuitive boy in Combray. For a time, the story is narrated through his younger mind in beautiful, almost dream-like prose. In a subsequent section of the volume, the narrator tells of the excruciating romance of his country neighbor, Monsieur Swann. The narrator reverts to his childhood, where he begins a similarly hopeless infatuation with Swann's little daughter, Gilberte. More than this apparently fragmented narrative, however, is the importance of the themes of memory, time, and art that connect and interweave the man's memories. Considered to be one of the twentieth century's major novels, Proust ultimately portrays the volatility of human life in this sweeping contemplation of reality and time. Illustrated with book-end doodles about reading

Author : Marcel Proust
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0375753125
Total Pages : 781 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained written by Marcel Proust and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 1999-02-16 with total page 781 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time Regained, the final volume of In Search of Lost Time, begins in the bleak and uncertain years of World War I. Years later, after the war’s end, Proust’s narrator returns to Paris and reflects on time, reality, jealousy, artistic creation, and the raw material of literature—his past life. This Modern Library edition also includes the indispensable Guide to Proust, compiled by Terence Kilmartin and revised by Joanna Kilmartin. For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartin’s acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieff’s translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of Á la recherché du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989).

Author : Marcel Proust
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swann's Way written by Marcel Proust and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Swann's Way' is the first part of Marcel Proust's legendary novel, In Search of Lost Time. The Narrator begins by noting, "For a long time, I went to bed early." He comments on the way sleep seems to alter one's surroundings, and the way habit makes one indifferent to them. He remembers being in his room in the family's country home in Combray, while downstairs his parents entertained their friend Charles Swann, an elegant man of Jewish origin with strong ties to society. Due to Swann's visit, the Narrator is deprived of his mother's goodnight kiss, but he gets her to spend the night reading to him. This memory is the only one he has of Combray until years later the taste of a madeleine cake dipped in tea inspires a nostalgic incident of involuntary memory.

Author : Marcel Proust
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030018543X
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swann's Way written by Marcel Proust and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-14 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The narrator interrupts reminiscences about his childhood spent in late-nineteenth-century France to recall the affair which a friend of the family carried on with young Odette de Crecy.

Author : Marcel Proust
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0812969642
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Search of Lost Time written by Marcel Proust and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2003-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first installment of the French author's multivolume autobiographical novel, originally published in 1913, in which he recalls his childhood and first infatuation.

Author : Marcel Proust
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swann's Way: in Search of Lost Time written by Marcel Proust and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Search of Lost Time (French: À la recherche du temps perdu)--also translated as Remembrance of Things Past--is a novel in seven volumes, written by Marcel Proust (1871-1922). It is considered to be his most prominent work, known both for its length and its theme of involuntary memory, the most famous example being the "episode of the madeleine" which occurs early in the first volume. It gained fame in English in translations by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin as Remembrance of Things Past, but the title In Search of Lost Time, a literal rendering of the French, has gained usage since D. J. Enright adopted it for his revised translation published in 1992.In Search of Lost Time follows the narrator's recollections of childhood and experiences into adulthood during late 19th century to early 20th century aristocratic France, while reflecting on the loss of time and lack of meaning to the world. The novel began to take shape in 1909. Proust continued to work on it until his final illness in the autumn of 1922 forced him to break off. Proust established the structure early on, but even after volumes were initially finished he kept adding new material and edited one volume after another for publication. The last three of the seven volumes contain oversights and fragmentary or unpolished passages, as they existed only in draft form at the death of the author; the publication of these parts was overseen by his brother Robert.

Author : Marcel Proust
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781548432577
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swann's Way written by Marcel Proust and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Search of Lost Time (French: � la recherche du temps perdu) - previously also translated as Remembrance of Things Past - is a novel in seven volumes, written by Marcel Proust (1871-1922). It is considered to be his most prominent work, known both for its length and its theme of involuntary memory, the most famous example being the "episode of the madeleine" which occurs early in the first volume. It gained fame in English in translations by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin as Remembrance of Things Past, but the title In Search of Lost Time.

Author : Marcel Proust
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Search of Lost Time Volume IV Sodom and Gomorrah written by Marcel Proust and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2003 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This translation is a revised edition of the 1981 translation of Cities of the plain by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, published in the United States by Random House, Inc., and in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus. Revisions by D.J. Enright"--T.p. verso.