Click to receive personalized book recommendations daily.
Before you go...
Check Out These
21 Books You’ve Been Meaning to Read
See the List
Best Seller
The Prisoner by Marcel Proust
Read An Excerpt

Look Inside

Read An Excerpt

The Prisoner

In Search of Lost Time, Volume 5 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

In Search of Lost Time, Volume 5 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

By Marcel Proust
Introduction by Carol Clark
Edited by Christopher Prendergast
Translated by Carol Clark
Notes by Carol Clark

By Marcel Proust
Introduction by Carol Clark
Edited by Christopher Prendergast
Translated by Carol Clark
Notes by Carol Clark

By Marcel Proust
Introduction by Carol Clark
Edited by Christopher Prendergast
Translated by Carol Clark
Notes by Carol Clark

By Marcel Proust
Introduction by Carol Clark
Edited by Christopher Prendergast
Translated by Carol Clark
Notes by Carol Clark

Part of In Search of Lost Time

Part of In Search of Lost Time

Paperback $25.00

Jan 08, 2019 | 448 Pages

Ebook $12.99

Jan 08, 2019 | 448 Pages

All Formats
+
    The Prisoner by Marcel Proust
    Paperback
    Jan 08, 2019 | 448 Pages
    See All Formats (1) +

    Paperback
    –

    • Paperback $25.00

      Jan 08, 2019 | 448 Pages

    Ebook
    +

    • Ebook $12.99

      Jan 08, 2019 | 448 Pages

    Buy the Ebook:

    About The Prisoner

    The long-awaited fifth volume–representing “the very summit of Proust’s art” (Slate)–in the acclaimed Penguin translation of “the greatest literary work of the twentieth century” (The New York Times)

    Carol Clark’s acclaimed translation of The Prisoner introduces a new generation of American readers to the literary riches of Marcel Proust. The fifth volume in Penguin Classics’ superb new edition of In Search of Lost Time–the first completely new translation of Proust’s masterpiece since the 1920s–brings us a more comic and lucid prose than readers of English have previously been able to enjoy.

    The titular “prisoner” is Albertine, the tall, dark orphan with whom Marcel had fallen in love at the end of Sodom and Gomorrah (volume 4). Albertine has moved in with Marcel in his family’s apartment in Paris, where the pair have a seemingly limitless supply of money and are chaperoned only by Marcel’s judgmental family servant, Françoise. Marcel, who worries obsessively about Albertine’s relationships with other women, grows more and more irrational in his attempts to control her, keeping her prisoner in his apartment and buying her couture gowns, furs, and jewelry in an attempt to protect her from herself and from the outside world and. And yet in addition to being a tragedy of possessive love, The Prisoner is also a comedy of human folly and misunderstanding, linked to the other volumes of the larger novel through its themes of class differences, art, irrationality, social snobbery, and, of course, time and memory.

    About The Prisoner

    The long-awaited fifth volume–representing “the very summit of Proust’s art” (Slate)–in the acclaimed Penguin translation of “the greatest literary work of the twentieth century” (The New York Times)

    Carol Clark’s acclaimed translation of The Prisoner introduces a new generation of American readers to the literary riches of Marcel Proust. The fifth volume in Penguin Classics’ superb new edition of In Search of Lost Time–the first completely new translation of Proust’s masterpiece since the 1920s–brings us a more comic and lucid prose than readers of English have previously been able to enjoy.

    The titular “prisoner” is Albertine, the tall, dark orphan with whom Marcel had fallen in love at the end of Sodom and Gomorrah (volume 4). Albertine has moved in with Marcel in his family’s apartment in Paris, where the pair have a seemingly limitless supply of money and are chaperoned only by Marcel’s judgmental family servant, Françoise. Marcel, who worries obsessively about Albertine’s relationships with other women, grows more and more irrational in his attempts to control her, keeping her prisoner in his apartment and buying her couture gowns, furs, and jewelry in an attempt to protect her from herself and from the outside world and. And yet in addition to being a tragedy of possessive love, The Prisoner is also a comedy of human folly and misunderstanding, linked to the other volumes of the larger novel through its themes of class differences, art, irrationality, social snobbery, and, of course, time and memory.

    Read An Excerpt

    Read An Excerpt

    Also by Marcel Proust

    Swann's Way
    The Collected Poems
    The Modern Library In Search of Lost Time, Complete and Unabridged 6-Book Bundle
    In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
    Swann's Way
    See all books by Marcel Proust

    Also by Marcel Proust

    Swann's Way
    The Collected Poems
    The Modern Library In Search of Lost Time, Complete and Unabridged 6-Book Bundle
    In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
    Swann's Way
    See all books by Marcel Proust

    About Marcel Proust

    Marcel Proust was born in the Parisian suburb of Auteuil on July 10, 1871. He began work on In Search of Lost Time sometime around 1908, and the first volume, Swann’s Way, was published in 1913. In 1919 the second… More about Marcel Proust

    About Marcel Proust

    Marcel Proust was born in the Parisian suburb of Auteuil on July 10, 1871. He began work on In Search of Lost Time sometime around 1908, and the first volume, Swann’s Way, was published in 1913. In 1919 the second… More about Marcel Proust

    Product Details

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Collections | Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $25.00
    Published by Penguin Classics
    Jan 08, 2019 | 448 Pages | 5-5/8 x 8-7/16 | ISBN 9780143133599

    Category: Fiction Classics | Literary Collections | Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $12.99
    Published by Penguin Classics
    Jan 08, 2019 | 448 Pages | ISBN 9780525505396

    Inspired by Your Browsing History

    Also in Literary Fiction

    ‹ ›
    Crooked Little Heart
    Crooked Little Heart
    Anne Lamott
    The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky
    The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky
    Jana Casale
    The Perfect Nanny
    The Perfect Nanny
    Leila Slimani
    The Last Year of the War
    The Last Year of the War
    Susan Meissner
    Look How Happy I'm Making You
    Look How Happy I’m Making You
    Polly Rosenwaike
    The Parade
    The Parade
    Dave Eggers
    Little Boy
    Little Boy
    Lawrence Ferlinghetti
    The Dragonfly Sea
    The Dragonfly Sea
    Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
    Gun Love
    Gun Love
    Jennifer Clement
    Gateway to the Moon
    Gateway to the Moon
    Mary Morris
    Too Close to Breathe
    Too Close to Breathe
    Olivia Kiernan
    Tomorrow There Will Be Sun
    Tomorrow There Will Be Sun
    Dana Reinhardt
    American Princess
    American Princess
    Stephanie Marie Thornton
    If, Then
    If, Then
    Kate Hope Day
    The Night Swimmers
    The Night Swimmers
    Peter Rock
    Childhood: Two Novellas
    Childhood: Two Novellas
    Gerard Reve
    Good Will Come From the Sea
    Good Will Come From the Sea
    Christos Ikonomou
    The Aftermath (Movie Tie-In Edition)
    The Aftermath (Movie Tie-In Edition)
    Rhidian Brook
    Gingerbread
    Gingerbread
    Helen Oyeyemi
    Awayland
    Awayland
    Ramona Ausubel
    The Italian Teacher
    The Italian Teacher
    Tom Rachman
    The Migration
    The Migration
    Helen Marshall
    Small Country
    Small Country
    Gaël Faye
    The Sea Beast Takes a Lover
    The Sea Beast Takes a Lover
    Michael Andreasen
    Confessions of the Fox
    Confessions of the Fox
    Jordy Rosenberg
    You Think It, I'll Say It
    You Think It, I’ll Say It
    Curtis Sittenfeld
    First Person
    First Person
    Richard Flanagan
    Homeland
    Homeland
    Fernando Aramburu
    The Altruists
    The Altruists
    Andrew Ridker
    A Place for Us
    A Place for Us
    Fatima Farheen Mirza
    The Volunteer
    The Volunteer
    Salvatore Scibona
    Baby of the Family
    Baby of the Family
    Maura Roosevelt
    The Only Story
    The Only Story
    Julian Barnes
    Max Havelaar
    Max Havelaar
    Multatuli
    Daisy Jones & The Six
    Daisy Jones & The Six
    Taylor Jenkins Reid
    The New Me
    The New Me
    Halle Butler
    The Unhappiness of Being a Single Man
    The Unhappiness of Being a Single Man
    Franz Kafka
    Dangerous People: The Complete Text of Ursula K Le Guin's Kesh Novella
    Dangerous People: The Complete Text of Ursula K Le Guin’s Kesh Novella
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    I the Supreme
    I the Supreme
    Augusto Roa Bastos
    Goulash
    Goulash
    Brian Kimberling
    Dead Men's Trousers
    Dead Men’s Trousers
    Irvine Welsh
    Ann Petry: The Street, The Narrows (LOA #314)
    Ann Petry: The Street, The Narrows (LOA #314)
    Ann Petry
    The Able McLaughlins
    The Able McLaughlins
    Margaret Wilson
    Landfall
    Landfall
    Thomas Mallon
    Aetherial Worlds
    Aetherial Worlds
    Tatyana Tolstaya

    Praise

    “A classic work of early modernist literature given new life.” —Kirkus Reviews

    “The new Penguin Proust offers English readers a stylistic experience that is a far better equivalent of the original than what they have had till now.” —The Times Literary Supplement

    “Penguin’s polyphonic Proust takes you on [an] amazing voyage.” —The Independent (London)

    “The latest Penguin Proust is a triumph, and will bring this inexhaustible artwork to new audiences throughout the English-speaking world.” —The Sunday Telegraph (London)

    Looking for More Great Reads?
    Download our Spring Fiction Sampler Now
    Back to Top

    Visit other sites in the Penguin Random House Network

    Brightly

    Raise kids who love to read
    TASTE img

    TASTE

    An online magazine for today’s home cook

    LitFlash

    The eBooks you want at the lowest prices

    Read it Forward

    Read it first. Pass it on!
    First to Read

    First to Read

    Early access to Penguin Random House’s hottest new titles