Modern Classics: In Search of Lost Time Volume 1 - Way By Swanns

Author  Marcel Proust Foreword by  Chri Prendergast Translated by  Lydia Davis
Modern Classics: In Search of Lost Time Volume 1 - Way By Swanns

One of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time Vol. 1: The Way by Swann's is published in a new translation from the French by Lydia Davis in Penguin Classics.

The Way by Swann's is one of the great novels of childhood, depicting the impressions of a sensitive boy of his family and neighbours, brought dazzlingly back to life by the famous taste of a madeleine. It contains the separate short novel, A Love of Swann's, a study of sexual jealousy that forms a crucial part of the vast, unfolding structure of In Search of Lost Time. This book established Proust as one of the greatest voices of the modern age -…