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The Life and Work of Marcel Proust (Audiobook, MP3)
Proust's great literary work "Remembrance of Things Past" looks back at the old social order while noting the rise of a different way of life. This biography looks at Proust's own life which provided the background for a number of his stories and sketches. Born in 1871, Marcel Proust was intent on becoming a writer from an early age. For much of his youth Proust led the life of a man-about-town, frequenting fashionable Paris drawing rooms and literary salons, which would form the background of a number of his early stories and sketches, and subsequently Proust's great work, Remembrance of Things Past, the major French literary statement of the 20th century.
For learners of English, Design for Drama features a number of plays that are adapted from well-known American short stories and poems. The stories represented are “The Marriages” by Henry James, “The Furnished Room” by O. Henry, “The Devil and Tom Walker” by Washington Irving, “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe, “A Horseman in the Sky” by Ambrose Bierce, and “Richard Cory” by Edwin Arlington Robinson. Design for Drama is recommended for high-intermediate and advanced learners of English.
