In Search of Lost Time - Volume 3: The Guermantes Way - Marcel Proust

The Guermantes Way opens up a vast, dazzling landscape of fashionable Parisian life in the late nineteenth century, as the narrator enters the brilliant, shallow world of the literary and aristocratic salons. Both a salute to and a devastating satire on a time, place and culture, The Guermantes Way is an unforgettable portrait of the initiation of a young man into the ways of the world.

'Proust isn't just the most profound of novelists, but the most entertaining, too. No reader ever forgets his most killingly funny scenes Proust sinks deepest in readers because the book is so exhaustively analytical, so ceaselessly truthful. The experience of reading it becomes, in itself, an unforgettable thing' Independent