In the third volume of the celebrated novel, a writer comes into his own and learns the way of the world in Paris.
 
Continuing the nameless narrator’s voyage through his memories after Within a Budding Grove, The Guermantes Way finds him and his family entering Parisian high society. They have moved into a stately old town house owned by the Duke and Duchess de Guermantes in the Fauborg Saint-Germain district...

Sodom and Gomorrah (1921/22) is the fourth volume of Marcel Proust's seven-part novel In Search of Lost Time. Being the last volume that had Proust's direct involvement, Sodom and Gomorrah is a story of love, jealousy and family from a master of Modernist literature. Praised by Virginia Woolf, Vladimir Nabokov, Michael Chabon, and Graham Greene, In Search of Lost Time explores the nature of memory and time while illuminating the history of homosexuality...

«Ces mots: "Mademoiselle Albertine est partie!" venaient de produire dans mon cœur une souffrance telle que je ne pourrais pas y résister longtemps. Ainsi ce que j'avais cru n'être rien pour moi, c'était tout simplement toute ma vie.»Alors que l'amour du narrateur pour Albertine s'était effacé sous l'indifférence, les mots de Françoise, la bonne, provoquent chez lui une blessure béante. Dans son chagrin il songe à retrouver Albertine,...