The first volume of Marcel Proust's monumental cycle, Swann's Way moves between the narrator's childhood memories in Combray and the unsettling social world of Charles Swann. Through lush, sensuous prose, it explores memory, longing, habit, and the way a single taste, scent, or image can open the past. Elegant, contemplative, and profoundly human, it is one of literature's great meditations on time and consciousness.