An authoritative new edition of Marcel Proust’sThe CaptiveandThe Fugitive, published together as the fifth volume of his epic masterwork,In Search of Lost TimeMarcel Proust’s monumental seven-part novelIn Search of Lost Timeis considered by many to be the greatest novel of the twentieth century.The CaptiveandThe Fugitive,the fifth and sixth volumes of Proust’s masterpiece, contain some ofliterature’s most beautiful meditations on art, music, desire, jealousy,love and loss, grieving and forgetting. In this work, Proust continueshis vast satirical fresco of high society in France just prior to theoutbreak of World War I.These volumes and the followingvolume were published posthumously, as Proust died when he wasapproximately one-third of the way through correcting the proofs forThe Captive.The Fugitivewas also the last volume translated by Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff,who did not live to finish his enormous task. This edition of the two,published together as the fifth volume, is edited and annotated by notedProust scholar William C. Carter, who endeavors to bring the classic C.K. Scott Moncrieff translation closer to the spirit and style of theoriginal.