This box set includes the twelve volumes of Proust's masterwork alongside the new biography written by Neville Jason.

Disc 1

Swann's Way
'For A Long Time I Used To Go To Bed Early' - 8:34
The Ritual Of The 'Good Night' Kiss - 4:23
Swann And The Middle Class Caste - 7:31
'Our Social Personality Is Created By The Thoughts Of Other People' - 9:30
My Foreboding - The Evening Ritual In Danger - 9:31
'I Never Took My Eyes Off My Mother' - 2:29
A Desperate Stratagem - 4:34
Agitation And Desperate Measures - 7:47
Caught In The Light Of My Father's Candle - 3:20
'Many Years Have Passed...' - 9:26
The petites madeleines... - 4:27
And Suddenly The Memory Returns - 6:10

Disc 2

Swann's Way
Decked In Long Shadows Of Memory - 6:43
Francoise And Aunt Leonie - 5:38
M. Legrandin, The Engineer - 2:48
Eulalie, The 'Energetic, Deaf Spinster' - 6:16
My Last Visit To Uncle Adolphe - 11:54
Reading In The Sunlight - 4:47
My Friend Bloch And Literary Conversation - 11:23
Aunt Leonie With Francoise And Eulalie - 12:19
The Kitchen Maid's Confinement And A Waking Dream - 4:10
M. Vinteuil, The Music Master - 12:41

Disc 3

Swann's Way
Francoise - 'A Colonel In The Kitchen' - 7:34
'Alas- We Have Had To Alter Our Opinion Of M. Legrandin' - 15:32
The Two Ways - Swann's Way and The Guermantes Way - 5:43
'The Whole Path Throbbing With The Fragrance Of The Hawthorn Blossom' - 9:20
Mlle Vinteuil And Her Friend - 8:40
My Aunt's Last Illness - 3:20
Watching From The Bushes - 10:01
The Guermantes Way - 3:54
The Zone Of Melancholy - 9:57

Disc 4

Swann In Love
The Little Clan At The Verdurins' - 9:03
M Swann - So Ardent A Lover - 10:49
Odette de Crecy - A Ravishing Creature - 8:22
Swann's First Night At The Verdurins' - 4:50
A New Society For M Swann - 9:20
Memories Of Vinteuil's Sonata - 5:52
Odette's Charming Entreaties - 4:25
Tea At Odette de Crecy's - 7:09
A Search - And A Rearrangement Of Orchids - 10:25
Evening Diversions - 8:16

Disc 5

Swann In Love
Comte de Forcheville - Arrival At The Verdurins' - 7:50
The First Public Slight - 'No Orchid Tonight?' - 9:27
A Fresh Turn Of The Screw - 13:35
Different Carriages - 7:02
Not Tonight At The Verdurins' - 6:49
A Wagnerian Duplicity - 11:16
Kept On Tenterhooks - 7:17
Music At The Marquise de Saint - Euverte's - 6:16
The Arrival Of The Princess des Laumes - 9:49

Disc 6

Swann In Love
Vinteuil's Sonata Again - 7:25
The Questioning Of Odette - 11:48
More Questions - 'Procuresses?' - 4:21
Daylight Falling - Waves Against A Cliff - 9:23
Place Names: The Name - 8:53
Gilberte - In A Poussin Garden - 4:51
Consumed By Gilberte - 12:34
A Special Street - Swann's Street - 10:08
The Disquieting Acacias Of The Bois de Boulogne - 8:48

Disc 7

Within A Budding Grove: Part I
Inviting The Marquis de Norpois To Dinner - 9:44
M. de Norpois Persuades My Father To Let Me Go To The Theatre - 8:25
My First Matinee - A Disappointment. - 7:31
Meeting M de Norpois Before Dinner - 10:47
The Church At Balbec - 5:49
Marriage And The Swanns - 12:05
'And Was Mme Swann's Daughter At The Dinner?' - 6:15
My Father - Unexpected Kindnesses - 3:14
A New Year's Day Offering - 8:38

Disc 8

Within A Budding Grove: Part I
'Neurotic Subjects Are Perhaps Less Addicted...' - 9:54
Hopes For A Welcome At The Swanns Home - 9:27
The World Of Odette Swann - 9:26
'Le lunch' And Vinteuil's Sonata. - 7:20
Lunch With The Writer Bergotte - 8:28
Further Friendship With Bergotte - 10:36
Worldly Advice About Women From My Old Friend Bloch - 6:00
Good Intentions And Struggles With My Writing - 5:26
'The Last Time That I Called To See Gilberte, It Was Raining' - 8:10

Disc 9

Within A Budding Grove: Part I
'Mme Swann Attached Great Importance To Her 'Tea' - 8:14
New Year's Day Again, An Unhappy Anniversary - 6:38
A Windfall Of Ten Thousand Francs - Now Not For Giving Pleasure But For Taking Pleasure... - 8:26
Walks With Mme Swann In The Avenue du Bois Near The Etoile - 7:22
Place-Names: The Place - 8:37
The Church At Balbec - 8:21
The Aftermath - Burning With Exhaustion - 8:58
Society At Balbec - 4:56
The Marquise de Villeparisis And My Grandmother's Principles - 6:56
Princesse de Luxembourg In A Stately Equipage, Plums And Wagner - 11:00

Disc 10

Within a Budding Grove: Part II
The Balbec Doctor - 7:41
Robert de Saint-Loup - Mme de Villeparis's Nephew - 6:16
Saint-Loup Made A Conquest Of My Grandmother - 3:01
My Old Friend Bloch - 7:37
An Invitation From Bloch To Dinner - 5:35
The Sensation Of Being Watched - 5:54
The Baron de Charlus - 6:13
Tea At Mme de Villeparisis's Room - 10:27
A Knock At My Bedroom Door - 7:19
The Family Bloch - 9:07
My Grandmother, Her Hat And The Photograph - 4:14

Disc 11

Within a Budding Grove: Part II
We Desire, We Seek, We See Beauty - 7:55
An Elderly Banker - 7:10
The Happiness Of Knowing These Girls Was, Then, Not To Be Realised - 7:45
Simonet And Family - 6:16
The Famous Painter Elstir - 8:29
A Fresh Suit For A Visit - 6:15
A Young Bicyclist, Her Polo-cap Pulled Down Towards Her Plump Cheeks - 9:59
Strolling To The Front - 10:13
Hope For Futher Meetings - 6:53
A Small Tea-Party To Meet Albertine - 8:34

Disc 12

Within a Budding Grove: Part II
Andree, With Eyes Of Extraordinary Brightness - 6:35
A Short Stroll With Albertine - 9:12
Andree, Albertine, Echoes Of Gilberte... - 14:10
Mixed Messages - 7:24
The Moon And Albertine - And An Invitation - 7:15
At The Grand Hotel - 5:51
Albertine, Virtuous? - 8:07
Back To Wandering Dreams - 4:48
Solving The Problem Of Existence - 9:23

Disc 13

The Guermantes Way: Part I
We Had Moved - To The Hotel De Guermantes - 12:19
Exploring The Hotel De Guermantes - 9:53
The Opera-Comique - 8:45
Berma In Phedre Again - 8:18
Early Morning Walks For A Casual Rendeszvous - 6:40
Visiting My Friend, Robert Saint-Loup - 9:08
No Time To Be Sad - 5:48
'Isn't That Mme De Guermantes's Photograph? - 6:28
Robert And His Mistress - 6:10
Telephonic Connexion With My Grandmother - 5:49

Disc 14

The Guermantes Way: Part I
An Uneasy Farewell From Robert - 7:58
The Winter Was Drawing To An End... - 8:15
The Suburb Of Paris To Visit Robert's Mistress - 10:27
In The Theatre - 7:23
Another Row - 10:16
A Party At The Home Of Mme De Villeparisis - 8:15
The 'Marie Antoinette' Lady - 7:59
Bloch And Legrandin - 9:58
Two Young Men - The Baron De Guermantes And The Duc De Chatellerault - 3:28
'Bloch Rose And Went Over To Look At The Flowers' - 3:43

Disc 15

The Guermantes Way: Part I
M. de Norpois And The Dreyfus Case - 7:28
The Duc de Guermantes - 14:11
The Comtesse de Marsantes, Robert's Mother - 6:36
The Prince von Faffenheim-Munsterburg-Weinigen, M. de Norpois And - A Favor - 7:43
The Arrival Of Mme Swann - 11:11
Observing Robert - 6:02
M de Charlus - 4:56
An Arm Snatched From Mine On Sight Of M D'Argencourt - 4:56
My Grandmother Is Not Well - 15:58

Disc 16

The Guermantes Way: Part II
Professor E... Gives His Diagnosis - 9:26
'When... My Grandmother Had Been Put To Bed...' - 11:08
'There Came A Time When Her Uraemic Trouble Affected My Grandmother's Eye' - 10:22
The Arrival Of Dr Dieulafoy - 5:25
'I Had Been Born Again, Life Lay Intact Before Me' - 4:42
Albertine Arrives - 7:49
Francoise Interrupts - 13:01
A Late Arrival At The Home Of Mme de Villeparisis - 10:38

Disc 17

The Guermantes Way: Part II
Mme de Stermaria - Anxious Anticipation - 5:24
The Welcome Voice Of Robert de Saint-Loup - 6:29
The Influence Of Robert - 7:32
The Home Of The Guermantes - 9:46
Further Introductions - 6:52
The Curvoisiers - The Rival Faction Of The Family - 13:39
Sitting Down To The Table - 6:54
'Green Asparagus Grown In The Open Air Ought To Be Eaten With Eggs' - 13:35

Disc 18

The Guermantes Way: Part II
The General de Monserfeuil - 8:28
'I Find King Edward Charming, So Simple, And Much Cleverer Than People Think' - 7:19
'Already I Had Made Several Attempts To Slip Away' - 6:49
I Arrive At The Home Of The Baron de Charlus - 6:34
'I Looked At M. de Charlus... Magnificent Head... Repellent, An Apollo Grown Old' - 11:21
'My Anger Had Not Calmed M de Charlus - 13:23
At The Home Of The Duke de Guermantes - 5:30
M Swann Arrives - 12:01
M Swann Makes A Revelation - 6:56

Disc 19

Sodom and Gomorrah: Part I
Part I: Standin On The Staircase - 9:30
Part I: Asking For A Light - 5:26
Part I: 'A Race Of Beings...' - 11:00
Part I: 'From this Day Onwards, M. de Charlus Was To Alter The Time Of His Visits' - 4:04
Part II: The Party At The Princesse de Guermantes - 5:56
Part II: Looking For An Introduction To The Princede Guermantes - 8:12
Part II: M. de Charlus, The Duc And Duchesse de Guermantes - 7:41
Part II: Discussions About Discussions - The Drefus Affair - 7:54
Part II: The Son Of Madame de surgis - 5:46
Part II: A Hand On My Shoulder - Robert de Saint Loup - 9:47

Disc 20

Sodom and Gomorrah: Part I
Part II: A Conversation With M. Swann - 9:53
Part II: M. Swann Continues The Story - 5:57
Part II: The Princess de Guermantes' Feeling For Palamede - 2:38
Part II: The Duc And Duchesse de Guermantes Leave Their Cousin's Party - 7:16
Part II: Back Home - And Waiting For Albertine - 11:16
Part II: 'When Albertine Had gone...' - 6:41
Part II: The Heart's Intermissions - Back In Balbec - 6:39
Part II: On the First Night - 'Complete Physical Collapse' - 8:46
Part II: 'An Inward Lethe Meandering' - 7:36
Part II: 'The Indolent Charm Of A Seaside Existence' - 6:02
Part II: The Arrival Of My Mother - 3:58

Disc 21

Sodom and Gomorrah: Part I
Part II: Images Of The Past While Albertine Waits - 7:03
Part II: More Grief And An Interrupted Train Journey - 6:50
Part II: Suspicions Of A Gomorrhan Nature In Albertine - 6:19
Part II: Doubts And Rejections - 7:17
Part II: Affairs Viewed And Imagined From A Distance - 5:05
Part II: Mme de Cambremer's barouche - 6:03
Part II: Monet, Chopin And The Dowager Marquise - 8:14
Part II: Heated Confused Emotions With Albertine - 9:36
Part II: Further Dilatoriness And Reflections Of Andree And Mme Putbus's Maid - 10:20
Part II: Two Sisters From A Watermill - 5:48
Part II: More Gamorrhan Distractions - 6:20

Disc 22

Sodom and Gomorrah: Part II
Waiting At The Balbec Station With Albertine - 5:45
In A Carrriage With A Reader Of Revue des Deux Mondes - 5:02
Noticing M de Charlus - 7:43
On The Wednesday Train To Dine At la Raspeliere - 8:14
Cottard, The Doctor , Tells Of The 'Great Scholars And High Nobility To Come' - 9:34
An Encounter With The Princess Sherbatoff - 5:45
Arriving At la Raspeliere - 5:37
The Entry Of M de Charlus And Morel - 9:00
Mme de Cambremer Starts To Enjoy Herself - 7:59
Memories Of A Conversation That Afternoon - 9:16
Saniette, The Antiquarian, Receives The Attention Of M Verdurin - 5:08

Disc 23

Sodom and Gomorrah: Part II
'To Put An End To Saniette's Torture...' - 4:15
Rising From Supper, M. de Charlus Gives His Titles - 5:28
More Expositions From M de Charlus And Some Music - 8:37
Last Refeshments And Conversation, And Farewells - 11:07
Musing On Mr de Charlus' Footmen And A Letter - 10:13
Driving With Albertine - 6:59
Complications With M de Charlus And Morel - 4:41
Back With Albertine - 8:32
Next Morning... - 6:58
'M de Charlus Lived In A State Of Deception' - 11:40

Disc 24

Sodom and Gomorrah: Part II
M de Charlus Is Disappointed And Hurt - 5:27
Returning With Morel - 7:54
In The Brothel At Mainville - 6:35
Morel Receives Another Surprise - 2:55
More Society Complications - 6:08
'Odd Habits' Of Albertine? - 8:09
The Train Leaves But Anxieties Continue - 4:10
Waiting For An Oppurtunity For A Final Rupture - 8:06
Staying The Night At Balbec - 7:26
More Torments - 6:41
Alone In My Room - 10:36

Disc 25

The Captive: Part I
In Bed In Paris - 6:13
'I Rang For Francoise. I Opened The Figaro' - 8:40
'As Soon As She Entered My Room, She Sprang Upon My Bed' - 8:02
'I Questioned Her Point-Blank' - 6:13
'Francoise Came Into Light The Fire' - 8:32
'But Already The Day Was Ending' - 6:50
The Dreyfus Affair - Still - 5:16
The Baron de Charlus And Morel - 9:39
The Baron And Jupien's Niece - 11:12
The Scent Of Syringa - 4:25

Disc 26

The Captive: Part I
Reflections With Elstir, Bergotte, Vinteuill - 8:19
'After Andree Left, Albertine Came To My Room' - 7:08
Albertine Reclining - 6:16
Two Images Of Albertine - 12:25
'Each Day Was For Me A Different Country' - 10:43
Albertine's Intention To Pay A Visit To Mme Verdurin - 10:40
'Albertine Went To Take Off Her Things...' - 5:10
'I Was Now At Liberty To Go Out With Albertine As Often As I Chose.' - 11:03

Disc 27

The Captive: Part I
'On The Morrow, I Awoke Early...' - 9:55
'As Soon As Albertine Had Gone Out...' - 10:33
'I Had Received A Letter From Mamma That Morning...' - 12:45
'Half An Hour Later, The Telephone Bell Began To Ring...' - 9:27
'Albertine Was On Her Way Home' - 6:01
'A Memory Of A Far-off Moment' - 9:35
'I Learned That A Death Had Occured... That Of Bergotte' - 13:12
Morel In Tears - 7:01

Disc 28

The Captive: Part II
Brichot Alights From A Tram - 7:50
Baron de Charlus With Darkened Eyelids - 4:55
The Monotony Of Pleasures - 4:50
Jealousies - 8:26
Entering The Verdurin's Hall - 6:40
Tensions And Pretensions At The Verdurins - 5:45
M de Charlus' Inconstancy - 13:34
Morel And The Musicians Assemble - 8:13
A Short Interval - And The Septet Begins Again - 7:55
The Music Finishes - 4:40
M de Charlus Begins To Withdraw - 6:44

Disc 29

The Captive: Part II
Mme Verdurin - 8:04
My Regrets And Concerns - 7:21
Still Detained - 4:44
Mme Verdurin Warns Morel - 10:07
M de Charlus Comes Back - 8:47
I Arrive Home - 6:26
Recriminations About Balbec - 12:50
'It Is Better That We Should Part...' - 6:57
Furhter Tests - 9:46
'My Little Albertine...' - 3:32

Disc 30

The Captive: Part II
'In The Morning...' - 2:50
Play-Acting - 4:55
A Glimpse - 5:14
More Games - 7:28
Albertine, The Pianola And Images - 6:02
The Old Doubts - 5:48
Winter Was At An End - 6:12
Two Features Of Albertine - 6:51
Spring - And Anger Emerges - 8:44
Intimate Stratagems - 6:29
'Is Albertine Out Of Bed Yet?' - 5:45
A Visit To Versailles - 4:53
Parisian Evocation - 4:40
I Rang For Francoise - 2:33

Disc 31

The Fugitive
'Mademoiselle Albertine has gone!' - 5:10
Reflections - 8:29
'I decided to write Albertine a farewell letter' - 7:00
Waiting for a reply - 3:34
'A telegraph from Robert and a letter from me' - 5:34
'Francoise brings two rings' - 3:54
A letter from Albertine - 4:30
The duplicity of Saint-Loup - 9:40
'She never came back' - 7:24
'Summer was at hand' - 9:30
'Albertine...still excited my jealousy' - 5:48
'The mysterious delight of a penetration' - 6:37
'In Albertine's case...' - 2:04

Disc 32

The Fugitive
'We have no hold over the life of another person' - 4:55
'Curiosity unbounded' - 4:26
Aime's report - 6:28
A further report from Aime - 7:22
The loosening of attachments - 6:57
'Andree came to see me' - 8:27
Immense desire - the cruelty of memory - 14:23
Mlle d'Eporcheville/Le Figaro - 6:23
A surprise meeting - Mlle Forcheville - 9:49
A month later, luncheon with the Guermantes - 4:57
Sketches by Elstir - 5:18

Disc 33

The Fugitive
'The process of oblivion' - 3:43
Another visit from Andree - some revelations - 7:18
The real Albertine - the young Bacchanal on the front at Balbec - 6:37
'My mother brought me to Venice' - 7:39
Breezes, gondolas, and disillusion for Mme Sazerat - 7:44
A curious telegram - 8:07
On the train to Paris - 6:30
'The train reached Paris...' - 6:56
'About this time I used to see a good deal of Gilberte' - 11:19
A visit to Combray - 9:10
Fresh touches to the image of a memory - 4:04

Disc 34

Time Regained
At Tansonville with Gilberte - 7:37
'Saint-Loup insisted I should remain...' - 7:37
Years in a sanitorium with a visit to Paris in 1914 - 4:32
'At dinner time the restaurants were full...' - 2:55
'Occasional meetings with Baron de Charlus and Bloch in Paris in 1914' - 6:19
A return to the sanatorium - and the receipt of letters from Gilbert and Robert - 3:37
On my second return to Paris - another letter from Gilberte - 3:55
A visit from Robert de Saint-Loup - 3:18
'Thinking about Saint-Loup's visit as I was walking to Mme Verdurin's...' - 7:01
A further vendetta against Baron de Charlus - 7:49
The views of Baron de Charlus - 5:24
The destruction of men and the effect of the War in France - 6:36
The aeroplanes passing through the night sky - 7:46
Among abandoned, derelict houses, one of opulence and activity - 4:14
Entrance to the house followed by a sailor - 2:01

Disc 35

Time Regained
A shocking discovery - 6:22
'I implore you, mercy, mercy, have pity' - 2:49
A croix-de-guerre had been found on the floor - 10:27
News of the death of Robert de Saint - 10:56
Back to another sanatorium - and finally, after some years, a return to Paris - 2:44
I ordered a carriage to take me to the party of the Prince de Guermantes - 6:43
'I got down from the carriage again for a little before reaching the Princesse de Guermanes' - 2:00
I stumble on some uneven paving stones - 4:13
I entered the Guermantes' mansion - 3:55
I forced myself to try and see clearly - 8:52
Fragments of existence removed from time - 3:27
As I entered the Prince de Guermantes' library - 4:02
Real life...which has been uncovered and illuminated... is literature; a work of art is the only... - 5:59
At this monent, the butler arrived to tell me that... I could leave the library...' - 6:56

Disc 36

Time Regained
The Duchesse de Guermantes: 'You, my oldest friend.' - 4:23
Old age, the meaning of death and the meaning of words - 8:03
Odette - looking like 'a rose that had been sterilised' - 4:50
I could hardly recognise my friend Bloch - 8:04
'An effect of Time' - 2:07
'Kindness, the simple process of maturing...' - 3:52
'A stout lady came up and greeted me - Gilberte' - 6:24
'Rachel, now a celebrated actress' - 2:20
Tea at the home of the great actress Berma - 2:16
Judgements on Rachel - 6:02
The lives of the Duchess, the Duke and Odette, Mme de Forcheville - 7:58
'The idea of lost Time...' - 5:12
'This idea of Time had another prize for me... I told myself it was time to begin' - 5:12
'This idea of death installed itself permanently in me...' - 8:29

Disc 37

The Life and Work of MARCEL PROUST
Reynaldo Hahn sings Offrande, 1909 - 8:00
Three fictional creative artists: a composer, a painter and an author - 6:52
Proust's episodes of 'involuntary memory' were a means of - 3:53
The Franco-Prussian War - 2:06
The birth of Marcel Proust, 10 January 1871 - 6:30
The goodnight kiss - 11:47
Military service - 5:50
The first short story - 4:30
Influential drawing rooms - 3:49
Comte Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac - 8:08
Reynaldo Hahn - 13:43
Lucien Daudet - 2:05
The Dreyfus Case - 2:16

Disc 38

The Life and Work of MARCEL PROUST
The Dreyfus Case (cont) - 3:53
Pleasures and Days - 6:31
Jean Santeuil, the early, autobiographical novel - 6:34
Anna de Noailles - 3:30
Marcel Proust and John Ruskin - 7:55
More work: Ruskin's The Bible of Amiens - 5:01
The move to 102 Boulevard Haussmann - 5:12
Time Lost, Time Regained, involuntary memory - 5:35
Alfred Agostinelli - 7:36
Sergei Diaghilev, Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso and friends - 9:20
Looking for a publisher - 8:23
The manuscript is delivered to Grasset - 4:47
Proust and Agostinelli - 4:47
Proust and Agostinelli (cont) - 1:27

Disc 39

The Life and Work of MARCEL PROUST
The publication of Swann's Way - 9:57
The First World War begins, 3 August 1914 - 7:50
The year of 1915 - 7:56
The poet Paul Morand - 3:07
Proust begins to go out again into the world - 4:58
Proust changes publishers - and joins - 6:00
The Armistice - a meeting with Harold Nicholson and a move to Rue Hamelin - 2:34
Within a Budding Grove published in 1919, winning the Prix Goncourt - 6:22
The meeting with James Joyce - 2:15
Proust and Music - 6:30
The Guermantes Way Part 2 and Sodom and Gomorrah published 1921 - 4:09
Colette remembers - 1:22
People and characters - 7:47
Worsening health and death - 7:07

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