Modern Library Classics Swann's Way, Book 0, (Paperback)

from Clara53

What can I say - exquisite prose... Lyrical, often anguished and oh, so beautiful. The first volume of Proust's 7 part novel. Once you get used to the unusually long sentences (which in my experien...

from P_S_Patrick

Having recently purchased a twelve volume set of Proust's Novel, I was anxious to make sure I was going to enjoy seeing it through. This worry soon seemed quite unnecessary upon finishing the first...

from dchaikin

This isn't a review so much as response. With Proust, anything deeper is beyond me. And even just a description is tough in the sense that his writing creates its own atmosphere that I can't possib...

from Pummzie

There are books which do need to be reviewed. No, that's not it. There are books about which I feel like an idiot proffering an opinion because they are so astonishing that I lack the vocabulary to...

from Arctic-Stranger

A friend on LT recommended I read In Search of Lost Time, and after resisting for a while, I finally dove in. This is now my summer reading project. First, this is an intimidating book. It is volum...