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The Guermantes Way — Marcel Proust

The Guermantes Way

Marcel Proust

  • Novel
  • Book language: English
  • 571 pages

The third volume of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. The novel follows the narrator into the aristocratic salons of Paris and the world of the Guermantes family, with careful reflection on society, memory, and time. It is worth listening to for its subtle style and perceptive portraits of high society.

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Cover of the original edition (Project Gutenberg, public domain).

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Transcriber’s Note:

Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected.

Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation.

Any corrections are indicated as hyperlinks, which will navigate the reader to the corresponding entry in the corrections table in the note at the end of the text.

THE MODERN LIBRARY

OF THE WORLD’S BEST BOOKS

THE GUERMANTES WAY

The publishers will be pleased to send, upon request, an illustrated folder setting forth the purpose and scope of THE MODERN LIBRARY, and listing each volume in the series. Every reader of books will find titles he has been looking for, handsomely printed, in unabridged editions, and at an unusually low price.

THE

GUERMANTES

WAY

BY MARCEL PROUST

Translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff

THE MODERN LIBRARY · NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT, 1925, BY THOMAS SELTZER

Random House IS THE PUBLISHER OF

THE MODERN LIBRARY

BENNETT A. CERF · DONALD S. KLOPFER · ROBERT K. HAAS

Manufactured in the United States of America

Printed by Parkway Printing Company      Bound by H. Wolff

MARCEL PROUST

(1871-1922)

A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR OF “À LA RECHERCHE

DU TEMPS PERDU”

“I don’t think there ever has been in the whole of literature such an

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Contents

  1. THE GUERMANTES WAY
  2. AUTHOR’S DEDICATION
  3. TRANSLATOR’S DEDICATION
  4. CONTENTS
  5. PART I
  6. PART II
  7. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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