'As close to being a definitive English version of the great novel as we are likely to get. This new edition will serve to introduce new generations of readers to what Somerset Maugham rightly described as the greatest novelof our century'. Allan Massie, SCOTSMAN
Marcel Proust was born in Auteuil in 1871. In his twenties he became a conspicuous society figure, frequenting the most fashionable Paris salons of the day. After 1889, however, his suffering from chronic asthma, the death of his parents and his growing disillustionment with humanity caused him to lead an increasingly retired life. He slept by day and worked by night, writing letters and devoting himself to the completion of A la recherche du temps perdu. He died in 1922 before publication of the last three volumes of his great life's work.
Oh if I could write like that!
*Virginia Woolf*
One of the cornerstones of the Western literary canon
*The Times*
Proust sinks deepest in readers because the book is so exhaustively
analytical, so ceaselessly truthful... The experience of reading
[the book] becomes, in itself, an unforgettable thing
*Independent*
The way he replicates the workings of the mind changed the art of
novel-writing forever...his style is extraordinary, enveloping,
captivating
*Guardian*
There are many who swear the experience has permanently enriched
their lives
*Daily Mail*
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