Swann's Way
  • Published: 17 October 2023
  • ISBN: 9781784878443
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 560
  • RRP: $22.99
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Swann's Way

In Search of Lost Time Vol 1

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VINTAGE CLASSICS FRENCH SERIES: stunning flapped paperback editions showcasing the bestselling, most acclaimed French writers of the twentieth century.

The definitive translation of a truly great French novel - Proust's beautiful, atmospheric story of memory and loss.

This is the first volume of In Search of Lost Time, one of the greatest French novels of the twentieth century. Travelling back through time, the narrator tells the story of events long since past - his childhood happiness and sadness, and memories brought famously back to life by the taste of a madeleine. His family's friend and neighbour, the aristocratic Swann, weaves through the tale. We learn of Swann's passionate love affair with Odette, a jealous love that creates a model for the narrator's own relationships. All Proust's great themes begin here: time and memory, love and loss, art and the artistic vocation.

THE ACCLAIMED FULLY REVISED EDITION OF THE SCOTT MONCRIEFF AND KILMARTIN TRANSLATION

The best translation available: 'A really major, significant achievement, and one that you should put on your Christmas list immediately' Guardian

VINTAGE FRENCH CLASSICS - six masterpieces of French fiction in collectable editions.
  • Published: 17 October 2023
  • ISBN: 9781784878443
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 560
  • RRP: $22.99
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In Search of Lost Time
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Jealousy
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Praise for Swann's Way

My advice is to plunge straight into Volume 1, Swann's Way there are many who swear the experience has permanently enriched their lives

Daily Mail

One of the cornerstones of the Western literary canon

The Times

Surely the greatest novelist of the 20th century

Sunday Telegraph

As close to being a definitive English version of the great novel as we are likely to get

Scotsman

Proust isn't just the most profound of novelists, but the most entertaining, too. No reader ever forgets his most killingly funny scenes... Proust sinks deepest in readers because the book is so exhaustively analytical, so ceaselessly truthful. Not the least of it is the book's heavenly length, so that it inevitably takes over your life for a long stretch... the experience of reading it becomes, in itself, an unforgettable thing

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