Download or read book The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust Illustrated Edition written by Marcel Proust and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-10 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third volume of perhaps the best novel of the 20th century. After the general closeness of the initial two volumes of In Search of Lost Time, The Guermantes Way opens up a tremendous, amazing scene of elegant Parisian life in the late nineteenth century, as the storyteller enters the splendid, shallow universe of the artistic and highborn salons. Both a salute to and a staggering parody of a period, spot, and culture, The Guermantes Way characterizes the extraordinary custom of books that follow the inception of a young fellow into the behaviors that most people find acceptable.