Paperback – 496 pages

The first volume of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, in Lydia Davis’s award-winning translation

Marcel ProustsIn Search of Lost Timeis one of the most entertaining reading experiences in any language and arguably the finest novel of the twentieth century. But since its original prewar translation there has been no completely new version in English. Now, Penguin Classics brings Prousts masterpiece to new audiences throughout the world, beginning with Lydia Daviss internationally acclaimed translation of the first volume,Swanns Way.

Swann’s Way is one of the preeminent novels of childhood: a sensitive boy’s impressions of his family and neighbors, all brought dazzlingly back to life years later by the taste of a madeleine. It also enfolds the short novel “Swann in Love,” an incomparable study of sexual jealousy that becomes a crucial part of the vast, unfolding structure ofIn Search of Lost Time. The first volume of the work that established Proust as one of the finest voices of the modern agesatirical, skeptical, confiding, and endlessly varied in his response to the human conditionSwann’s Wayalso stands on its own as a perfect rendering of a life in art, of the past recreated through memory.