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Written by Marcel Proust - Performed & abridged by Neville Jason - Abridged Fiction - Produced by Nicolas Soames

3 COMPACT DISCS with classical music - 3.5 hours

Publisher, Naxos Audiobooks (May 2001)

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Marcel Proust's great work , the major French literary statement of the 20th Century, looks back at the old social order while noting the rise of a different way of life. It is extraordinary, not only in its length, but for the remarkable observations on the aspirations, the foibles and the emotions of life. Once experienced, the voice of Proust is never forgotten.

In Time Regained the final volume of Remembrance of Things Past, as the various threads that have emerged through the vast novel are brought together, and sometimes resolved, Marcel continues the nature of Time and its effect on himself and the people he has known. "For after death, Time leaves the body, and memories---indifferent and pale are obliterated in her who exists no longer and soon will be in in him they still torture, memories which perish with the desire of the living body."

The first 11 (of 12) volumes of Naxos AudioBooks' Remembrance of Things Past series use C.K. Scott Moncrieff's translation. Translation of Volume 12 : Time Regained was done by Neville Jason (who adapted our entire series for audio, and is its performer.