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. The fourth volume,Sodom and Gomorrah, is notable for its pioneering discussion of homosexuality. After its publication,Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette(known asColette) wrote to Proust, "No one has written pages such as these on homosexuals, no one!" InSodom and Gomorrah, Proust's narrator not only depicts the class tensions of a changing France at the beginning of the twentieth century but also exposes the decadence of aristocratic Parisian society and muses upon the subjects of homosexuality and sexual jealousy.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."A giant miniature, full of images, of superimposed gardens, of games conducted between space and time."-Jean Cocteau"The way he replicates the workings of the mind changed the art of novel writing forever...his style is extraordinary, enveloping, captivating."-The GuardianThis edition is edited and annotated by noted Proust scholarWilliam C. Carter, who endeavours to bring the classicC. K. Scott Moncriefftranslation closer to the spirit and s