The Guermantes Way
- 680 pages
- 24 hours of reading
An authoritative new edition of the third volume in Marcel Proust's epic masterwork, In Search of Lost Time




An authoritative new edition of the third volume in Marcel Proust's epic masterwork, In Search of Lost Time
Agent Al Dewey, of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, has a crime to solve. A horrific crime - the cool slaughter of an entire family of God-fearing farming folk. Blood and hair all over the walls, and only a few dollars missing. All Agent Dewey has are two footprints, four dead bodies and a whole lots of questions, none with easy answers.
One of the world's first best-sellers, this tragic masterpiece attained an instant and lasting success upon its 1774 publication. A sensitive exploration of the mind of a young artist, the tale addresses age-old questions — the meaning of love, of death, and the possibility of redemption — in the form of Werther's alternately joyful and despairing letters about his unrequited love. Goethe's portrayal of a character who struggles to reconcile his artistic sensibilities with the demands of the objective world proved tremendously influential to subsequent writers and continues to speak to modern readers.
Deels autobiografisch relaas van het leven van het jongste kind, een roodharig buitenbeentje, van een middenstandsgezin.