
Swann's Way
Book 1 of In Search of Lost Time
- 440 pages · about 7 hours
- First published 1913
- 636 editions
- Free to read
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1 About this book
For a long time I used to go to bed early. Sometimes, when I had put out my candle, my eyes would close so quickly that I had not even time to say I'm going to sleep.
And half an hour later the thought that it was time to go to sleep would awaken me; I would try to put away the book which, I imagined, was still in my hands, and to blow out the light; I had been thinking all the time, while I was asleep, of what I had just been reading, but my thoughts had run into a channel of their own, until I myself seemed actually to have become the subject of my book: a church, a quartet, the rivalry between Francois I and Charles V.
Good for readers who want: a classic, a love story, and a book they can read free online.
- Romance literature
- Classics
- Romance
- Comics & graphic novels
- Social life and customs
- Upper class
- Villages
- Christian, classic & allegory
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