A literary novel exploring memory, love, society, and the shaping force of time on human experience. Through childhood recollections in Combray and the sophisticated Parisian world of Charles Swann, it offers psychological depth and richly detailed observations, introducing the central themes of a monumental literary sequence.
Publication Year: 1956 (Vintage Books edition; later reprints in the 1960s–70s)
Publisher: Vintage Books (Random House)
Language: English
Original Language: French (Du côté de chez Swann, 1913)
Translator: C. K. Scott Moncrieff
ISBN: 0394705947 (Vintage edition)
Format: Paperback