Swann's Way (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781512078435)

For a long time I used to go to bed early. Sometimes, when I had put out my candle, my eyes would close so quickly that I had not even time to say "I'm going to sleep." And half an hour later the thought that it was time to go to sleep would awaken me; I would try to put away the book which, I imagined, was still in my hands, and to blow out the light; I had been thinking all the time, while I was asleep, of what I had just been reading, but my thoughts had run into a channel of their own, until I myself seemed actually to have become the subject of my book: a church, a quartet, the rivalry between Fran ois I and Charles V. This impression would persist for some moments after I was awake; it did not disturb my mind, but it lay like scales upon my eyes and prevented them from registering the fact that the candle was no longer burning.

Author: Marcel Proust
ISBN-10: 1512078433
ISBN-13: 9781512078435
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 05/06/2015
Pages: 140
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.30d