------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s Note: This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_. Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation. THE MODERN LIBRARY __OF THE WORLD’S BEST BOOKS__ [Illustration] _THE GUERMANTES WAY_ [Illustration] _The publishers will be pleased to send, upon request, an illustrated folder setting forth the purpose and scope of_ THE MODERN LIBRARY, _and listing each volume in the series. Every reader of books will find titles he has been looking for, handsomely printed, in unabridged editions, and at an unusually low price._ THE GUERMANTES WAY BY MARCEL PROUST _Translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff_ [Illustration] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE MODERN LIBRARY · NEW YORK ------------------------------------------------------------------------ COPYRIGHT, 1925, BY THOMAS SELTZER _Random House_ IS THE PUBLISHER OF THE MODERN LIBRARY BENNETT A. CERF · DONALD S. KLOPFER · ROBERT K. HAAS Manufactured in the United States of America Printed by Parkway Printing Company Bound by H. Wolff ------------------------------------------------------------------------ =============================== MARCEL PROUST (1871-1922) A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR OF “À LA RECHERCHE DU TEMPS PERDU” “_I don’t think there ever has been in the whole of literature such an example of the power of analysis, and I feel safe in saying that there will never be another._”—_Joseph Conrad._