The reader portrays Swann's longing for the former courtesan Odette de Crecy, and Marcel's childish love for their daughter Gilberte, with exceptional passion.

Swann's Way' is not a book to read on the train, skipping over the pages with one eye on the landscape; it is a book of true originality and profundity to the point of strangeness, claiming the reader's attention and even seizing it f...

In CITIES OF THE PLAIN (also known as SODOM AND GOMORRAH), Marcel continues his forays into the aristocratic society into which he has finally been admitted, finding satisfaction but a growing disillusionment as well, and is both fasc...

TIME REGAINED, the final volume of Proust's great work, covers the years of World War I and its aftermath. Marcel returns to Paris, sees many of the people he once knew (now grown old and grotesque), and finds that the thrice-married ...

Remembrance of Things Past is one of the monuments of twentieth century literature. Neville Jason's unabridged recording of the work runs to 150 hours. The Captive is the fifth of seven volumes. The Narrator's obsessive love for Alber...

Here is an illuminating overture to the defining work of French modernism and one of the major classics of the twentieth century. Proust's epic examination of the subtleties of human existence in the modern world is a gargantuan compo...