Chasing lost time : the life of C.K. Scott Moncrieff : soldier, spy and translator
Findlay, Jean2015
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C.K. Scott Moncrieff's translation of Proust's 'A La Recherche du Temps Perdu' was first published in English in 1922. It was hailed as 'nothing less than extraordinary' and was the beginning of a work that would exhaust and consume him, leading to his early death at the age of just forty. Written by Scott Moncrieff's great-great-niece, Jean Findlay, with exclusive access to the family archive, this is the tale of a man expert at living a paradoxical life - fervent Catholic convert and homosexual, gregarious and deeply lonely, interwar spy and public man of letters - a man for whom honour was the most abiding principle.
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London : Vintage, 2015.
Collation:
xvi, 351 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm
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Originally published: London: Chatto & Windus, 2014.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780099507086 (pbk)
Dewey class:
828.91209828.91209B
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B/SCOT
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English
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BRN:
1832145
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