In Search Of Lost Time Vol 1

Jul 17, 2025 8:24 AM

Author:Marcel Proust,C. K. Scott Moncrieff,Terence Kilmartin,D. J. Enright

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. Swann's jealous love for Odette provides a prophetic model of the narrator's own relationships. All Proust's great themes - time and memory, love and loss, art and the artistic vocation - are here in kernel form.

'Surely the greatest novelist of the 20th century' Telegraph

Reviews

My advice is to plunge straight into Volume 1, Swann's Way there are many who swear the experience has permanently enriched their lives

—— Daily Mail

One of the cornerstones of the Western literary canon

—— The Times

Surely the greatest novelist of the 20th century

—— Sunday Telegraph

As close to being a definitive English version of the great novel as we are likely to get

—— Scotsman

Proust isn't just the most profound of novelists, but the most entertaining, too. No reader ever forgets his most killingly funny scenes... Proust sinks deepest in readers because the book is so exhaustively analytical, so ceaselessly truthful. Not the least of it is the book's heavenly length, so that it inevitably takes over your life for a long stretch... the experience of reading it becomes, in itself, an unforgettable thing

—— Independent

An addictive cocktail of wit, frivolity and madcap romance

—— Time Out

Compulsively readable

—— Times

Hilarious yet poignant

—— Sophie Kinsella

Warm, witty and wise

—— Daily Mail

Hilarious and full of surprises

—— Daily Telegraph

Classy, wonderfully gossipy and breathless

—— Red

We defy you not to get caught up in Alliott's life-changing tale

—— Heat

A genuine panoramic, 3D, surround-sound, total-immersion, thrill-factor ten miracle - it is the kind of book that you just don't want to end! ... Engrossing, action-packed ... Very highly recommended

—— SFRevu

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