bThe first volume of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century, in Lydia Davis's award-winning translationbrbbr Marcel Proust's iIn Search of Lost Timei is one of the most entertaining reading experiences in any language and arguably the finest novel of the twentieth century. But since its original prewar translation there has been no completely new version in English. Now, Penguin Classics brings Proust's masterpiece to new audiences throughout the world, beginning with Lydia Davis's internationally acclaimed translation of the first volume, iSwann's Wayi.brpSwann's Way is one of the preeminent novels of childhood a sensitive boy's impressions of his family and neighbors, all brought dazzlingly back to life years later by the taste of a madeleine. It also enfolds the short novel Swann in Love, an incomparable study of sexual jealousy that becomes a crucial part of the vast, unfolding structure of iIn Search of Lost Timei. The first volume of the work that established Proust