In Search of Lost Time - Volume 1: The Way by Swann's - Marcel Proust

The Way by Swann's is one of the great novels of childhood, depicting the impressions of a sensitive boy regarding his family and neighbours, brought dazzlingly back to life by the famous taste of a madeleine. It also contains the separate short novel, A Love of Swann's: a study of sexual jealousy that forms a crucial part of Proust's great masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time. This book established Proust as one of the greatest voices of the modern age - satirical, sceptical, confiding and endlessly varied in his response to the human condition.

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