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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
This is the essential classical translation that sings from the page. Reader persist - this is the apex of literature that slowly envelopes your mind with the sweet webbing that Proust weaves. In e reader form it breaks the text into chunks that you can assimiliate easily. All literate people should endeavour to read Proust in their lifetime, it will enrich you forever.
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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Excellent Value!
5 Sep 2011
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I have read the entire In Search of Lost Time in hardcover, in Moncrieff's translation. I have just compared this digital version with my hardcover edition, & they are word-for-word. This digital version is most certainly Moncrieff's translation. Dedicatory poems by Proust & Moncrieff before the beginning of each book are missing & the table of contents is not accessible from my Kindle's Menu\Go To. However, I was delighted to find this ebook edition for only $3.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Kindle edition worth the purchase despite some flaws
22 Nov 2011
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
You probably don't need anyone to tell you this book is great literature. You more likely want to know if the Kindle edition is worth the purchase price, and it absolutely is.
This is the Moncrieff translation, which I also own in a large, two-volume clothbound set from 1934. Simply put, the Kindle edition is considerably more portable and convenient than owning In Search of Lost Time in a physical form.
But there is an opportunity cost for choosing this low-priced ebook:
¶ It appears this book was scanned and digitized using optical character recognition, but not proof-read (at least not very closely) by a human afterward. For most readers it shouldn't be a problem much of the time, but you'll occasionally read passages where one or more letters have been printed in place of similar-looking letters.
¶ If you like making note of your progress through a book, you'll find it difficult here. Some ebooks have section markers shown as dots in the progress bar at the bottom of the Kindle screen; there's none of that in this book. And because this contains all six books that comprise the story, trying to judge your progress by checking the percentage at the bottom is unhelpful because it takes maybe a full day of reading to advance just a single percentage point.
Despite its flaws, you can't really go wrong purchasing this edition of In Search of Lost Time.
This is the Moncrieff translation, which I also own in a large, two-volume clothbound set from 1934. Simply put, the Kindle edition is considerably more portable and convenient than owning In Search of Lost Time in a physical form.
But there is an opportunity cost for choosing this low-priced ebook:
¶ It appears this book was scanned and digitized using optical character recognition, but not proof-read (at least not very closely) by a human afterward. For most readers it shouldn't be a problem much of the time, but you'll occasionally read passages where one or more letters have been printed in place of similar-looking letters.
¶ If you like making note of your progress through a book, you'll find it difficult here. Some ebooks have section markers shown as dots in the progress bar at the bottom of the Kindle screen; there's none of that in this book. And because this contains all six books that comprise the story, trying to judge your progress by checking the percentage at the bottom is unhelpful because it takes maybe a full day of reading to advance just a single percentage point.
Despite its flaws, you can't really go wrong purchasing this edition of In Search of Lost Time.
18 of 24 people found the following review helpful
A rip-of -- save your $3
16 Aug 2011
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
Can I have my money back? This is one very shoddy translation of Proust, practically useless. It is almost certainly not by Moncrieff but by an illiterate who thinks, for instance, that "albeit" is a synonym for "although" and that the odd clause can be dropped from Proust's sentences without affecting the reader's ability to get whatever subtle idea he is trying to put across. Nor was the thing revised: not only do typos abound but the beginning of Time Regained, for instance, actually begins several pages back in the previous book. If you've never read Proust, do not let this cheapo version tempt you into doing so -- it will unnecessarily handicap you in your ability to comprehend and appreciate it.
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