In Search of Lost Time, first translated into English as Remembrance of Things Past, and sometimes referred to in French as La Recherche, is a novel in seven volumes by French author Marcel Proust. Th
A first galley proof of À la recherche du temps perdu: Du côté de chez Swann with Proust's handwritten corrections
NRF edition of Du côté de chez Swann, 1917
1923 edition of La Prisonnière. It is labelled as "Tome VI" as Sodom et Gomorrhe was originally published in two volumes.
Illiers, the country town overlooked by a church steeple where Proust spent time as a child and which he described as "Combray" in the novel. The town adopted the name Illiers-Combray in homage.
Éditions Gallimard, formerly Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française and Librairie Gallimard, is one of the leading French book publishers. In 2003, it and its subsidiaries published 1,418 titles.