Marcel Proust

In the second volume of Proust's great novel, the narrator emerges as an actor in the drama of his own life. Swann has now dwindled into a husband for his former mistress, Odette....

Swann's Way is Marcel Proust's literary masterpiece and the first part of the multivolume audiobook Remembrance of Things Past....

Remembrance of Things Past is one of the monuments of 20th-century literature....

Accidentally witnessing an encounter between the Baron de Charlus and the tailor Jupien, the narrator’s eyes are opened to a world hidden from him until now; he suspects that Albertine is attracted to her own sex....

The young narrator, experiencing his youthful sexuality, falls under the spell of a group of adolescent girls....

The narrator penetrates the inner sanctum of Paris high society and falls in love with the fascinating Duchesse de Guermantes....

The Ultimate Classics Collection: Volume Five is the fifth instalment of our wide-ranging classic collections.

'Swann's Way', the first volume of Marcel Proust's monumental novel 'Remembrance of Things Past', is a rich and complex exploration of memory, time, and the inner workings of the human mind.

Swann’s Way is the first of seven volumes and sets the scene with the narrator’s memories being famously provoked by the taste of that little cake....

When the taste of a tea-soaked madeleine sends the narrator spiraling into recollections of his childhood in Combray, everyday life becomes something stranger and more profound: a landscape shaped by obsession, longing, social performance, and the fragile architecture of time itself.

Lost in the blacked-out streets of Paris during the First World War, Marcel stumbles into a brothel and accidentally witnesses a shocking scene involving the Baron de Charlus....

Remembrance of Things Past is one of the monuments of 20th-century literature....

Dans un Paris assombri par les feux de la guerre, la mondanité poursuit son cours. C'est un Paris pourtant métamorphosé que redécouvre le narrateur...

When the narrator of Swann's Way dips a petite madeleine into hot tea, the act transports him to his childhood in the French town of Combray. Out of his Pandora's box of reflections comes a memory of an old family friend, Swann....

Newly discovered stories from one of the great storytellers of the 20th century. Throughout Proust's life, nine of his short stories remained unseen - the writer never spoke of them. Why did he choose not to publish them along with the others? One possible answer is that he was developing his...

The French Classics Collection brings together 18 of the greatest works of fiction ever written in French - here collected into one audiobook and all translated into English.

"Du côté de chez Swann" et "Le temps retrouvé", au commencement et à la fin de l'œuvre, sont deux arches, parallèles dans leur construction et leur projet...

Swann's Way is the first part of Marcel Proust's monumental, seven volume Remembrance of Things Past....

Pour la première fois, un éditeur propose l'essentiel de l'œuvre de Marcel Proust, en présentant une écoute choisie d'"À la recherche du temps perdu"...

Marcel's suspicions regarding Albertine's lesbian desires lead to his keeping her a virtual prisoner in his Paris apartment. The Captive is a masterly portrayal of obessional jealousy...