Now in a convenient eBook bundle, thisModern Libraryedition provides the most authoritative, critically acclaimed translation ofMarcel Proust’smasterpiece in six volumes,In Search of Lost Time, which includes Swann’s Way, Within a Budding Grove, The Guermantes Way, Sodom & Gomorrah, The Captive, The Fugitive, & Time Regained.Graham GreeneconsideredMarcel Proust“the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just asTolstoywas in the nineteenth.”Edmund Wilsonproposed that he was “perhaps the last great historian of the loves.” AndVirginia Woolfcelebrated Proust for “his combination of the utmost sensibility with the utmost tenacity.” The prolific French master dazzled many of the most cherished authors of our time, & now his signature work comes alive in this practical & completely accessible eBook bundle.For theseModern Libraryvolumes,D. J. Enrightrevised the lateTerence Kilmartin’sacclaimed reworkings ofC. K. Scott Moncrieff’s&Andreas Mayor’stranslations to match the definitive French editions published in recent decades. Expertly & lovingly crafted to rivalMarcel Proust’soriginal in elegance, precision, & emotional resonance, here isIn Search of Lost Timeas it was meant to be read.°°°The longest novel inPenguin Classics&Penguin Modern ClassicsisISoLTbyMarcel Proust. This modernist masterpiece sprawls across six chunky volumes & a total of 3,616 pages. Assuming a pace of one page a minute,Timewill take you two solid days, 12 hours & 16 minutes to read, that is if you don’t pause to sleep, eat a madeleine or pursue an involuntary train of thought back to your childhood & your ailing aunt Leonie.Big books such asTimepresent a paradox. They are forbiddingly, unappealingly long, & yet the very fact that they are widely read despite their extreme size implies that their rewards are correspondingly tremendous, & this makes them all the more attractive.