Swann’s Way is C.K. Scott Moncrieff’s celebrated English translation of Du côté de chez Swann, the first volume of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time. Published in French in 1913, it opens with one of the most famous passages in all of literature — the narrator’s involuntary memory of Combray triggered by a madeleine soaked in tea — and unfolds into a vast meditation on time, memory, love, and art.
This English translation made Proust accessible to the English-speaking world and is itself a literary achievement. Download this public-domain text as a free EPUB.