Within a Budding Grove describes the first shoots of an astonishing love affair. When Proust\"s adolescent narrator travels from Paris to the sunny seaside town of Balbec he meets an intriguing set of new acquaintances who provide him with both friendship and entertainment....

In The Guermantes Way Proust\"s narrator recalls his initiation into the dazzling world of Parisian high society. Looking back over his time in the glamorous salons of the aristocracy, he satirises this shallow world and his own youthful infatuation with it....

In Sodom and Gomorrah Proust\"s narrator not only depicts the class tensions of a changing France at the beginning of the twentieth century but also exposes the decadence of aristocratic Parisian society and muses upon the subjects of homosexuality and sexual jealousy....

In the two novels - The Captive and The Fugitive - contained in this volume, Proust\"s narrator is living in his mother\"s apartment in Paris with his lover, Albertine. However, this is far from an idyllic state of affairs. His obsessive love for her means that their relationship is shadowed by jealousy and headed for tragedy....

The definitive translation of one of the greatest French novels of the twentieth century In the opening volume of Proust\"s great novel, the narrator travels backwards in time in order to tell the story of a love affair that had taken place before his own birth....

Time Regained begins in the bleak and uncertain years of World War I. Years later, after the war\"s end, Proust\"s narrator returns to Paris and reflects on time, reality, jealousy, artistic creation, and the raw material of literature - his past life....

As a young man, Proust wrote both poetry and prose. Even after he embarked on his masterful In Search of Lost Time at the age of thirty-eight, he never stopped writing poetry....

Since the original, prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid Proust. In Search of Lost Time is one of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language....

Since the original, prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid Proust. In Search of Lost Time is one of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language....

Since the original, prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid Proust. In Search of Lost Time is one of the greatest, most enjoyable reading experiences in any language....

Since the original prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid Proust. In Search of Lost Time is one of the greatest,most entertaining reading experiences in any language....

Since the original, prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid Proust. In Search of Lost Time is one of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language....

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....

Proust\"s only other work of fiction published in his lifetime apart from the monumental novel cycle In Search of Lost Time, Pleasures and Days takes the reader on a journey through the high-society circles of fin-de-siecle Paris, presenting the lives, loves and attitudes of a host of unforgettable characters....

New writing from the literary master Throughout Proust’s life, nine of his short stories remained unseen – the writer never even spoke of them. Perhaps he was not ready to share the early themes he was nurturing for his masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time....