In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust

Swann's Way, the first part of A la recherche de temps perdu, Marcel Proust's seven-part cycle, was published in 1913. In it, Proust introduces the themes that run through the entire work. The narrator recalls his childhood, aided by the famous madeleine; and describes M. Swann's passion for Odette. The work is incomparable. Edmund Wilson said "[Proust] has supplied for the first time in literature an equivalent in the full scale for the new theory of modern physics."

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	Name	Binding	Sales Rank	Lowest New	Lowest Used	Published
	Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)	Kindle Edition	60720			2004
	In Search of Lost Time: v. 2 (Everyman's Library Classics)	Hardcover	1101106	$18.87	$14.30	2001
	Within a budding grove (His Remembrance of things past)	Paperback	3638703	$6.49	$0.01
	Within a Budding Grove: Part 1 (Remembrance of Things Past, 3) (Pt. 1)	Audio CD	4555535	$26.85	$26.87
	The Captive & The Fugitive: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. V (Modern Library Classics) (v. 5)	Paperback	413454	$8.78	$0.49	1999
	In Search of Lost Time, Volume 5: The Captive, The Fugitive (Modern Library)	Kindle Edition	517230	$11.84		2010
	Sodom & Gomorrah	Audio CD	1050240	$11.89	$12.95
	In Search of Lost Time, Volume 2: Within a Budding Grove (Modern Library) (v. 2)	Hardcover	1172534	$39.27	$0.01	1992
	Finding Time Again (In Search of Lost Time, Volume 6) (Vol 6)	Hardcover	427251	$157.70	$27.69	2002
	Time Regained (Remembrance of Things Past (Naxos Audiobooks))	Audio CD	2511434	$11.36	$11.35
	Swann's Way	Kindle Edition	42566	$1.99		2012
	Swann's Way (Remembrance of Things Past, Volume One)	Paperback	459772	$8.20	$20.47	2009
	Swann's Way	Audio CD	483263	$22.87	$22.29	2010
	In Search of Lost Time (6 Volumes)	Hardcover	4434848		$109.34	2000
	REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST (illustrated, complete, and unexpurgated 100th Anniversary Edition) (Includes All Seven Volumes (also known as IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME))	Kindle Edition	39443	$3.99		2013
	In Search of Lost Time, Volume I: Swann's Way (A Modern Library E-Book): 1	Kindle Edition	163418	$8.84		2000
	In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1: Swann's Way	Hardcover	364902	$6.39	$6.36	1992
	Swann's Way: Remembrance of Things Past, book one	Mass Market Paperback	1110312	$15.00	$1.05	1998
	Swanns Way (Remembrance of Things Past (Naxos Audiobooks))	Audio CD	1193169	$11.17	$16.22	1995
	In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 2 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)	Kindle Edition	108599	$11.84		2005
	In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower	Hardcover	130592	$31.98	$6.98	2004
	In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book): Within a Budding Grove v. 2	Kindle Edition	267056	$11.99		2000
	In Search of Lost Time, Volume III: The Guermantes Way: 3	Kindle Edition	475960	$10.99		2000
	In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book): 4	Kindle Edition	478959	$12.24		2000
	In Search of Lost Time, Volume 4: Sodom and Gomorrah	Hardcover	1807391	$148.34	$16.92	1993
	Sodom and Gomorrah (In Search of Lost Time, Volume 4) (Vol 4)	Paperback	1236073	$9.23	$4.66	2003
	In Search of Lost Time: The Guermantes Way (Volume 3/7)	Paperback	3143125	$19.99		2020
	Swann's Way (Vintage Classics)	Paperback	1185077	$2.63	$0.01	1989
	Swann's Way (Modern Library Classics)	Mass Market Paperback	1835272	$53.28	$0.01	2004
	Sodom and Gomorrah (Cities of the Plains)	Hardcover	1324898	$34.96	$4.99	2004
	Remembrance Of Things Past or In Search Of Lost Time	Kindle Edition	201288	$4.99		2012
	In Search of Lost Time: Time Regained (Volume 7/7)	Paperback	917499	$14.99		2020
	In Search of Lost Time: Prisoner/The Fugitive v.5 (Vol 5)	Hardcover	3511630		$199.95	2002
	In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 3: The Guermantes Way	Hardcover	2018242	$126.14	$45.00	1993
	Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1 (19th century classics illustrated edition)	Paperback	297423	$33.00		2021
	In Search of Lost Time	Hardcover	3678332		$452.09	2006
	Swann's Way, In Search of Lost Time (Deluxe Library Binding)	Hardcover	1301604	$29.95	$44.93	2020
	In Search Of Lost Time	Hardcover	3118849	$16.08	$12.06
	Sodom and Gomorrah: (Cities of the Plains) (Remembrance of Things Past, 7) (Part 1)	Audio CD	4923560	$10.84	$8.65
	SWANN'S WAY (illustrated, complete, and unabridged 100th Anniversary Edition) (In Search of Lost Time (Remembrance of Things Past))	Kindle Edition	132414	$2.99		2013
	Within A Budding Grove: In Search of Lost Time, Volume Two	Paperback	937916	$12.99		2021
	In Search of Lost Time: Swann's Way: A Graphic Novel	Kindle Edition	1691328			2015
	Within a Budding Grove: Part 2 (Remembrance of Things Past, 4) (Pt. 2)	Audio CD	5809930		$11.94
	In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book): Time Regained v. 6 (Time Regained - Guide to Proust)	Kindle Edition	121742	$9.99		2000
	In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 2	Paperback	669506	$24.00		2015
	In Search of Lost Times	Paperback	5122023	$16.19	$37.86	2007
	In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7] (Mahon Classics)	Kindle Edition	265152			2016
	In Search of Lost Time: Swann's Way: A Graphic Novel	Hardcover	312502	$21.43		2015
	In Search of Lost Time Volume IV Sodom and Gomorrah (Modern Library Classics)	Paperback	528078	$11.46	$2.05	1999
	Sodom and Gomorrah: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 4	Kindle Edition	1787251	$80.75		2021
	Swann's Way (AmazonClassics Edition)	Kindle Edition	76719			2018
	Swann's Way (Penguin Drop Caps)	Hardcover	396558	$18.48	$13.85	2013
	By Marcel Proust Swann's Way (Remembrance of Things Past) (Unabridged)	Audio CD	888916	$86.81	$73.21
	In Search of Lost Time, Volume 6: Time Regained, A Guide to Proust (Time Regained - Guide to Proust) (v. 6)	Hardcover	1092721	$59.18	$0.01	1993
	Finding Time Again (In Search of Lost Time 6) (v. 6)	Paperback	431722	$6.24	$6.24	2003
	In Search Of Lost Time, Vol. 1: Swann's way - Within a Budding Grove, Part 1	Hardcover	336755	$23.56	$21.70	2001
	Swann's Way (Xist Classics)	Kindle Edition	414023			2015
	Swann's Way	Paperback	907986	$8.90		2016
	Guermantes Way	Hardcover	10900119	$19.99	$421.87
	Swann's Way	Hardcover	885884	$2.99	$23.15	2018
	The Captive and The Fugitive: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 5 (In Search of Lost Time, 5)	Hardcover	343447	$78.73	$77.54	2023
	Swann's Way (Remembrance of Things Past, Volume One)	Kindle Edition	103105			1920
	Swann's Way	Kindle Edition	569645
	Swann's Way - Remembrance of Things Past, Volume 1	Paperback	1198062	$9.56	$22.70	2011
	The Fugitive: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 6 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)	Paperback	51783	$26.00		2021
	In Search of Lost Time: Swann's Way: A Graphic Novel	Paperback	502924	$14.49	$9.19	2019
	Sodom and Gomorrah: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 4	Hardcover	2170212	$85.00		2021
	Sodom and Gomorrah: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 4 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)	Paperback	104943	$17.59	$9.95	2005
	Swann's Way	Paperback	932964	$8.67	$3.97	2013
	Swann's Way	Audio CD	1159524	$24.32	$4,215.00	2010
	Sodom and Gomorrah (Remembrance of Things Past, 8) (Pt. 2)	Audio CD	4334162	$9.19	$2.33
	Swann's Way (Remembrance of Things Past)	Audio CD	3408159	$65.56	$59.81	2012
	The Way by Swann's (In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1) (Vol 1)	Paperback	503346	$9.03	$1.80	2003
	Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 1	Paperback	730270	$18.59	$6.23	2013
	In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 2 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)	Paperback	76336	$15.85	$10.28	2005
	Finding Time Again: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 7 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)	Paperback	346762	$27.00		2023
	In Search of Lost Time: Proust 6-pack (Modern Library Classics)	Paperback	95240	$60.13	$49.95	2003
	Swann's Way (In Search of Lost Time)	Paperback	217101	$9.98		2016
	The Prisoner and The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, Volume 5) (v. 5)	Paperback	488776	$11.31	$5.33	2003
	In Search of Lost Time: Within a Budding Grove v. 2	Hardcover	1796337		$27.00	1992
	In Search of Lost Time: Swann's Way, Vol. 1	Paperback	64789	$10.41	$1.95	2003
	Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)	Paperback	25138	$9.94	$2.80	2004
	In Search of Lost Time	Paperback	434219	$8.93	$10.76	2020
	In Search of Lost Time: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (Vol. Vol. 2)	Paperback	333857	$19.95		2019
	The Prisoner: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 5 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)	Kindle Edition	189192			2019
	In Search of Lost Time (Everyman's Library Classics)	Hardcover	580392	$13.37	$13.34	2001
	The Guermantes Way	Paperback	171381	$11.66	$5.26	2005
	The Guermantes Way: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 3	Paperback	771162	$19.48	$12.00	2018
	The Guermantes Way: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 3 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)	Kindle Edition	601070			2005
	In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]	Kindle Edition	11103	$2.99		2013
	The Modern Library In Search of Lost Time, Complete and Unabridged 6-Book Bundle: Remembrance of Things Past, Volumes I-VI (Proust Complete)	Kindle Edition	57542	$49.99		2012
	Swann's Way	Paperback	1132189	$9.22	$6.95	2011
	Swann's Way	Audio CD	4011562	$52.74	$52.73	2010
	In Search of Lost Time: Vol 1	Paperback	526282	$9.39	$2.99	1996
	In search of lost time, III: the Guermantes way	Hardcover	7694856	$22.19	$12.30
	Within a Budding Grove	Paperback	8852646		$2.99
	The guermantes way - In search of the lost time 3	Kindle Edition	812597			2011
	In Search of Lost Time: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (Vol. Vol. 2)	Kindle Edition	744187			2019
	Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1	Paperback	720401	$8.99		2019
	The Prisoner: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 5 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)	Paperback	490365	$18.28		2019
	In Search of Lost Time, Vol. II: Within a Budding Grove (Modern Library Classics)	Paperback	540962	$11.94	$2.20	1998
	Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time (100 Copy Limited Edition)	Hardcover	1396119	$42.14	$72.07	2018
	The Guermantes Way: His Remembrance of Things Past	Paperback	4406860	$10.00	$0.01
	In Search of Lost Time, Volume 5: The Captive, The Fugitive	Hardcover	824593	$75.00	$22.18	1993
	In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust	Paperback	898998	$5.99		2021
	Sodom and Gomorrah: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 4 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)	Kindle Edition	310248	$12.79		2005
	Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1 19th century classics Illustrated Edition	Kindle Edition	473520	$3.99		2022
	In Search of Lost Time - A Graphic Novel: Swann's Way	Hardcover	3332781	$18.35	$17.90	2016
	In Search of Lost Time, Vol. III: The Guermantes Way	Paperback	820234	$13.07	$3.50	1998
	Time Regained: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. VI (Modern Library Classics)	Paperback	550719	$13.43	$1.63	1999