Somerset Maugham called À la recherche du temps perdu “the greatest fiction to date.” Proust’s novel is, with more than three thousand pages and a million and a half words, the largest but least read of the so-called great twentieth-century classics. It follows the narrator's recollections of childhood and experiences into adulthood in the late 19th century and early 20th century aristocratic France, while reflecting on the loss of time and lack of meaning to the world. Combray is the first part.
ISBN 978-1-58977-113-0
Molière & Co. #23