Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove: 1

By Marcel Proust

Book Overview

From the French intellectual, novelist, essayist, and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century: the first volume of Proust's monumental achievement Remembrance of Things Past, collecting Swann's Way and Within a Budding Grove.

In C. K. Scott Moncrieff's heralded original English translation, as revised by Terence Kilmartin based on the definitive French Pl iade edition.

Marcel Proust's masterpiece is one of the towering literary works of the twentieth century. Relating its narrator's experiences in Belle Epoque France as he grows up, falls in love, and lives through the First World War, it has mesmerized generations of readers with its profound reflections on art, time, and memory.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394711823
• ISBN13: 9780394711829
• Release Date: August 1982
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 1056 Pages
• Weight: 2.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 5.2" x 7.8"