In Search Of Lost Timeis Proust's masterpiece and was described bySomerset Maughamas the greatest novel of the 20th century. This edition contains notes, addenda and synopses."Proust isn't just the most profound of novelists, but the most entertaining, too."-The IndependentMarcel Proust'smonumental seven-part novelIn Search of Lost Timeis considered by many to be the greatest novel of the twentieth century.Time Regainedbegins in the bleak and uncertain years of World War I. Years later, after the war's end, Proust's narrator returns to Paris and reflects on time, reality, jealousy, artistic creation, and the raw material of literature - his past life. This edition includes the indispensable A Guide to Proust, compiled byTerence Kilmartinand revised byJoanna Kilmartin.Since the original, prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid Proust.In Search Of Lost Timeis one of the greatest, most enjoyable reading experiences in any language. As the great story unfolds from its magical opening scenes to its devastating end, it is thePenguin Proustthat makes Proust accessible to a new generation."Sublime... In Proust's interweaving of romantic delusions, the glory of the descriptions, as the narrator strives to recapture the past, redeems everyone."-John Updike"The way he replicates the workings of the mind changed the art of novel-writing forever...his style is extraordinary, enveloping, captivating."-The GuardianEach book is translated by a different, superb translator working under the general editorship ofProfessor Christopher Prendergast.