Du côté de chez Swann

About this book

For a long time I used to go to bed early. Sometimes, when I had put out my candle, my eyes would close so quickly that I had not even time to say I'm going to sleep. And half an hour later the thought that it was time to go to sleep would awaken me; I would try to put away the book which, I imagined, was still in my hands, and to blow out the light; I had been thinking all the time, while I was asleep, of what I had just been reading, but my thoughts had run into a channel of their own, until I myself seemed actually to have become the subject of my book: a church, a quartet, the rivalry between Francois I and Charles V.

1. 1 Swann's Way 1913 This book
2. 2 In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower 1919
3. 3 The Guermantes Way 1920
4. 5 The Captive 1923

Subjects

• belle epoque
• classic literature
• comics & graphic novels, general
• continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
• dictionaries
• early memories
• english language
• fiction
• fiction, christian, classic & allegory
• fiction, general
• fiction, historical
• fiction, romance, general
• fin de siecle
• france, fiction
• french
• french fiction
• french language
• literature
• manners and customs
• obsessive-compulsive disorder
• readers
• romance literature
• social conditions
• social life and customs
• spanish
• translations into czech
• translations into english
• upper class
• villages