Remembrance of Things Past, Volume II: The Guermantes Way Cities of the Plain-Quality Guarantee

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From the French intellectual, novelist, essayist, critic, and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century: the second volume of Proust’s monumental achievement Remembrance of Things Past, collecting The Guermantes Way and Cities of the Plain.

In C. K. Scott Moncrieff’s heralded original English translation, as revised by Terence Kilmartin based on the definitive French Pléiade edition.

Marcel Proust’s masterpiece is one of the towering literary works of the twentieth century. Relating its narrator’s experiences in Belle Epoque France as he grows up, falls in love, and lives through the First World War, it has mesmerized generations of readers with its profound reflections on art, time, and memory.