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Marcel Proust - Works: short stories, essays, novels, and letters

Which books by John Ruskin did Marcel Proust translate into French?

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Portrait of French author Marcel Proust, seated with his hand resting thoughtfully against his chin, wearing a dark suit and looking directly at the camera. — Marcel Proust French author Marcel Proust wrote what is considered one of the supreme achievements of modern fiction, the seven-part autobiographical novel À la recherche du temps perdu (1913–27; In Search of Lost Time).

Marcel Proust translated two works by the English writer John Ruskin into French:

Bible of Amiens
Sesame and Lilies

Proust included prefaces in these translations, which are notable as the works where the style of his mature prose first began to emerge.1