Proust, Marcel: Swanns Way (Nab Audio CD 17-disc set)  

Neville Jason
Swanns Way Unabridged.

Remembrance of Things Past is one of the monuments of 20th century literature. Neville Jason’s widely praised 36 CD abridged version has rightly become an audiobook landmark and now, upon numerous requests, he is recording the whole work unabridged which, when complete, will run for some 140 hours.
Swann’s Way is the first of seven volumes and sets the scene with the narrator’s memories being famously provoked by the taste of that little cake, the madeleine, accompanied by a cup of lime-flowered tea. It is an unmatched portrait of fin-de-siècle France.

• The first unabridged and complete recording of Remembrance of Things Past in English. It uses the famous Scott Moncrieff translation

• The start of the cycle from the acknowledged Proust master-reader, introducing not only the narrator and his family, but also Swann and his love affair with Odette

• Neville Jason is also known for reading another massive unabridged classic, Tolstoy’s War and Peace

• The 36 CD abridged version is available in one 39 CD box with Jason’s own 3 CD biography of Proust; and Jason also presents an 8 CD introduction/overview of Proust’s magnum opus, The Essential Remembrance of Things Past