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In Search of Lost Time

Volume Three:
The Guermantes Way

by Marcel Proust

(Translator: C. K. Scott Moncrieff)

Virtual Entertainment, 2013

Series: The 10 Greatest Books of All Time

Note: this book was divided into additional parts due totechnical limitations Android-application.

In Search of Lost Time or Remembrance of Things Past (French: Àla recherche du temps perdu) is a novel in seven volumes. The novelhad great influence on twentieth-century literature; some writershave sought to emulate it, others to parody it.

The novel began to take shape in 1909. Proust continued to workon it until his final illness in the autumn of 1922 forced him tobreak off. Proust established the structure early on, but evenafter volumes were initially finished he kept adding new material,and edited one volume after another for publication. The last threeof the seven volumes contain oversights and fragmentary orunpolished passages as they existed in draft form at the death ofthe author; the publication of these parts was overseen by hisbrother Robert.
The work was published in France between 1913 and 1927. Proust paidfor the publication of the first volume (by the Grasset publishinghouse) after it had been turned down by leading editors who hadbeen offered the manuscript in longhand. Many of its ideas, motifsand scenes appear in adumbrated form in Proust's unfinished novel,Jean Santeuil (1896–99), though the perspective and treatment thereare different, and in his unfinished hybrid of philosophical essayand story, Contre Sainte-Beuve (1908–09).

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