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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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3 About Marcel Proust

1871–1922

Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust ( PROOST; French:; 10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist best known for his novel À la recherche du temps perdu (translated into English as In Search of Lost Time, earlier Remembrance of Things Past), which was published in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927 and totals around 1.25 million words.

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