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Swann's Way

Swann's Way

by Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922

BookID: 7178

Language:English

Translator:Scott-Moncrieff, C. K. (Charles Kenneth), 1889-1930

Uniform Title:Du côté de chez Swann. English

Series Title:Remembrance of things past (or, In search of lost time) ; volume 1

Reading Level:Reading ease score: 59.0 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read.

Copyright Status:Public domain in the USA.

Autobiographical fictionVillages -- France -- FictionFrance -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction

Description

"Swann's Way" by Marcel Proust is a novel published in 1913, the first volume of his seven-part masterwork "In Search of Lost Time." Through a narrator's recollections of childhood in late nineteenth-century France, Proust explores the revolutionary theme of involuntary memory. The volume includes the famous madeleine cake episode and "Swann in Love," a self-contained story of Charles Swann's passionate affair with Odette de Crécy. Initially rejected by multiple publishers, Proust paid for its publication himself, launching what would become one of the twentieth century's most influential novels. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Class:PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese

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