The Guermantes Way (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books, ML 213)

428, 395 pp. The third of seven parts of Proust's magnum opus, The Remembrance of Things Past (also translated as In Search of Lost Time). The esteemed twentieth-century French writer's work on fashionable Parisian life in the late nineteenth century takes readers into the vivid and shallow sides of the period's literary and aristocratic salons, where a young man is initiated into the insidious ways of the world.