{"product_id":"swanns-way-marcel-proust-9780679720096","title":"Swann's Way","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the French novelist, essayist, critic, and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century: the first volume of his monumental masterpiece, one of the most sensitive renderings of childhood in fiction and a brilliant meditation on the recreation of the past through art and memory. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSwann's Way\u003c\/i\u003e is the most frequently read part of Proust's epic novel, \u003ci\u003eRemembrance of Things Past\u003c\/i\u003e (also known as \u003ci\u003eIn Search of Lost Time\u003c\/i\u003e). It introduces subjects that resonate throughout the entire work, including the narrator's love for Swann's daughter Gilberte, Swann's jealous passion for Odette, and the rise of the nouveaux-riches Verdurins. Proust's narrator vividly recalls his childhood in Paris and Combray, most famously in a fraught evocation of his mother's good-night kiss and in the iconic scene where the taste of a madeleine dipped in tea brings back a flood of memory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marcel Proust\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 067972009X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780679720096\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/13\/1989\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 496\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.82lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.99h x 5.19w x 1.08d","brand":"Marcel Proust","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43981089243391,"sku":"9780679720096","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1a8a5ad8-87e9-44a8-a0f0-db166565d8e4.jpg?v=1683253598","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/swanns-way-marcel-proust-9780679720096","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}