Remembrance of Things Past

In Search of Lost Time (French: À la recherche du temps perdu) – previously also translated as Remembrance of Things Past – is a novel in seven volumes, written by Marcel Proust (1871–1922). It is considered to be his most prominent work, known both for its length and its theme of involuntary memory.
The novel was initially published in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927. Translated from the French by C. K. Scott Moncrieff: Volumes I to VI, Stephen Hudson: Volume VII.
1. Swann's Way
2. Within a Budding Grove. When published, the novel was awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1919.
3. The Guermantes Way
4. Cities Of The Plain (Sodom and Gomorrah )
5. The Captive
6. The Sweet Cheat Gone
7. Time Regained
The novel had great influence on twentieth-century literature; some writers have sought to emulate it, others to parody it. In the centenary year of Du côté de chez Swann, Edmund White pronounced À la recherche du temps perdu "the most respected novel of the twentieth century."