{"title":"Adam Watt","description":"Adam Watt is Professor of French and Comparative Literature and Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor for the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Exeter, UK. A specialist on the life and work of the novelist Marcel Proust, he has published comparative work on a range of twentieth-century authors. His publications on Proust, in English and French, have been translated into Chinese, Danish, Farsi, and German. He is editor of the landmark volume The Cambridge History of the Novel in French (2021) and, with Brian Nelson, co-editor of the Oxford World's Classics translation of Proust's In Search of Lost Time.","products":[{"product_id":"the-lost-domain-paperback","title":"The Lost Domain - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'I am looking for something still more mysterious: for the path you read about in books, the old lane choked with undergrowth whose entrance the weary prince could not discover.'\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Lost Domain\u003c\/em\u003e (1913) is an adventure story as well as a lyrical homage to life in pre-war rural France. One of France's best-loved and most read novels of all time, it is a tale of growing up, friendship, love, and loss, threaded through with traits of romance, fantasy, and make-believe. François Seurel, the son of a schoolteacher, recounts events of his adolescence that revolve around his friend Augustin Meaulnes, a bold dreamer who stumbles into an elaborate fête at a mysterious 'lost domain', falls in love, yet seems destined never again to find the bewitching location nor his beloved. Much of the narrative circles round the question of whether the past can ever be revived. The simple pleasures and sensory delights of rural childhood, the exhilarations and disappointments of youthful discoveries, and the poignant confrontation of dream and reality are combined in prose that modulates between face-paced and poetic. At just twenty-seven years old, Alain-Fournier died in action in 1914, the year after the publication of \u003cem\u003eThe Lost Domain\u003c\/em\u003e, which remains a nostalgic portrait of the France that was shattered by the First World War. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102617112799,"sku":"9780192866561","price":15.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/1h2oslGrgz9780192866561.webp?v=1781083607"},{"product_id":"the-swann-way-paperback","title":"The Swann Way - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'The memory of a particular image is only regret for a particular moment...'\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Swann Way\u003c\/em\u003e is the first volume of Marcel Proust's \u003cem\u003eIn Search of Lost Time\u003c\/em\u003e (1913-27), one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. The work is a portal to Proust's novel and an introduction to its unforgettable first-person narrator-protagonist. Immersed in themes of time, memory, identity, art, sensation, love, and jealousy, the narrator embarks on the story of his life and the paths he takes towards fulfilling his vocation as a writer. Principally focused on the narrator's childhood, this volume lays the foundation of Proust's extraordinary literary edifice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe first volume in a major new translation of \u003cem\u003eIn Search of Lost Time\u003c\/em\u003e, co-edited by Brian Nelson and Adam Watt. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104821809375,"sku":"9780198871521","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/k6-3RpcQEy9780198871521.webp?v=1781111389"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/adam-watt.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}