Simon Vance

English translation of the first installment of the French author's multi-volume autobiographical novel, published in 1913. "This first book of Proust's supreme seven-volume masterpiece, A la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past), recalls the early youth of Charles Swann in the small provincial backwater of Combray as seen through the eyes of the narrator. It then shifts to Swann himself, now a man of fashion caught up in the glittering...