Marcel Proust’s Swann’s Way has been called one of the most entertaining reading experiences in any language.

Considered one of the definitive modern novelists by many scholars, Proust ultimately portrays the volatility of human life in this vast contemplation of reality and time.

 “Oh—if I could write like that!”

 —Virginia Woolf

  “Marcel Proust is the greatest novelist of the 20th century.”

 —Graham Greene

MARCEL PROUST (1871-1922) was a French novelist, essayist, and critic best remembered for his towering novel Remembrance of Things Past, of which Swann’s Way was the first volume.