Swann's Way (Remembrance of Things Past)

xviii, 486, [6] pp. 8vo. Burgundy leather spine, red cloth boards, gilt title and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, red ribbon marker bound in. A reworking of the French Pleiade edition, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, with illustrations by Malcolm Liepke. "Swann's Way is the most frequently read part of Proust's epic novel, Remembrance of Things Past (also known as In Search of Lost Time). It introduces subjects that resonate throughout the entire work, including the narrator's love for Swann's daughter Gilberte, Swann's jealous passion for Odette, and the rise of the nouveaux-riches Verdurins. Proust’s narrator vividly recalls his childhood in Paris and Combray, most famously in a fraught evocation of his mother’s good-night kiss and in the iconic scene where the taste of a madeleine dipped in tea brings back a flood of memory."