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An introduction by Adam Watt, author of The Cambridge Introduction to Proust (2011), a biography of Proust, and Marcel Proust in Context (2013).

Brian Nelson's previous translations for Oxford World's Classics have received critical acclaim and popular recognition.

A compelling new translation of one of Proust's most powerful novels with an Introduction which contextualizes the short novel within the wider work and the cultural landscape, alert to the challenges of reading Proust for the first time.

At the same time, it offers readers a perfect, short introduction to Proust

Swann in Love, the second section of the first volume of Proust's multi-volume novel In Search of Lost Time, may be read as a brilliant self-contained novella.

A study in jealousy and the indirections of desire it is here that Proust first works through his devastating theory of love. Swann in Love is the story of Charles Swann and his infatuation with Odette de Crécy and the revealing psychological turmoil his relations with her involves.