Author(s): Proust, Marcel
Reader(s): Jason, Neville
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Classic Fiction
Catalogue No: NA0098
Barcode: 9781843796107
Release Date: 04/2012

PROUST, M.: Remembrance of Things Past, Vol. 3: Guermantes Way (The) (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.

The Guermantes Way is the third of seven volumes. The narrator penetrates the inner sanctum of Paris high society and falls in love with the fascinating Duchesse de Guermantes. Proust describes vividly the struggles for political, social and sexual supremacy played out beneath a veneer of elegant manners. He also finds himself pursued by the predatory Baron de Charlus.

Tracklist

Disc 1
Proust, Marcel - Author
Jason, Neville (Reader)
1The twittering of the birds at daybreak…06:30
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2And yet the fairy must perish if we come in contact…04:36
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3What form was assumed in my mind by this name…08:12
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4In the parties which she gave…07:23
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5'Ah! Combray, Combray!' she cried.06:32
Jason, Neville (Reader)
6This new friend of Françoise was very little at home…05:53
Jason, Neville (Reader)
7As soon as she had shut the window again…06:57
Jason, Neville (Reader)
8'I can well believe that it is something…'07:41
Jason, Neville (Reader)
9What annoyed her more than anything…05:20
Jason, Neville (Reader)
10And it became all the more essential…09:15
Jason, Neville (Reader)
11But if the Hotel de Guermantes began for me…06:31
Jason, Neville (Reader)
12As one of Mme de Guermantes's footmen was in the habit…04:11
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 2
1That villa, that opera-box, into which Mme de Guermantes…04:46
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2That evening as, armed with the ticket…05:56
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3Next to me were some common people…05:55
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4Like a mighty goddess who presides from far aloft…06:51
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5'That fat fellow is the Marquis de Ganancay,'…08:19
Jason, Neville (Reader)
6I no longer felt the same indulgence…09:18
Jason, Neville (Reader)
7My own impression, to tell the truth…04:44
Jason, Neville (Reader)
8I thought so at first.06:34
Jason, Neville (Reader)
9Just as the curtain was rising on this second play…06:58
Jason, Neville (Reader)
10The explanation of Mme de Cambremer's presence…06:42
Jason, Neville (Reader)
11Mme de Cambremer was trying to make out…07:15
Jason, Neville (Reader)
12On coming home from the Opéra-Comique…05:58
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 3
1Why did I one morning…04:45
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2I should not myself have felt that Mme de Guermantes…06:07
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3To return to Françoise…07:03
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4I was genuinely in love with Mme de Guermantes.05:55
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5The friendship, the admiration that Saint-Loup felt for me…07:54
Jason, Neville (Reader)
6At that moment a sergeant who was exercising a horse…09:39
Jason, Neville (Reader)
7To return to the problem of sounds…06:08
Jason, Neville (Reader)
8The silence, though only relative, which reigned…07:03
Jason, Neville (Reader)
9Robert, without being aware of its cause…07:37
Jason, Neville (Reader)
10If I wished to go out or to come in…09:07
Jason, Neville (Reader)
11What one has meant to do during the day…08:02
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 4
1When I had finished sleeping…06:09
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2But soon I was constantly going to see the regiment…06:39
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3One of them said that the Captain had bought a new horse.05:07
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4On leaving the barracks I would take a stroll…09:04
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5The wind grew stronger.05:32
Jason, Neville (Reader)
6'Robert, this is hardly the time or the place…'06:01
Jason, Neville (Reader)
7Which was exactly what he had just been doing…05:31
Jason, Neville (Reader)
8On the third evening, one of his friends…06:40
Jason, Neville (Reader)
9At this point I was interrupted by Saint-Loup…07:59
Jason, Neville (Reader)
10Partly out of courtesy to his friends…10:28
Jason, Neville (Reader)
11The enunciation of these theories by Saint-Loup made me happy.10:11
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 5
1'Saint-Loup is quite right…'06:30
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2When the conversation became general…07:22
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3I breathed a sigh of relief when I realised…08:49
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4All the same I could see that, during the hour that followed…06:46
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5'Listen, if you don't mind. Just one last word…'05:13
Jason, Neville (Reader)
6For I continued my eager demands…05:01
Jason, Neville (Reader)
7If the Prince de Borodino was not prepared…04:32
Jason, Neville (Reader)
8Son, doubtless, or grandson of an Emperor…07:46
Jason, Neville (Reader)
9And, the moment our call has sounded…09:19
Jason, Neville (Reader)
10When I came among Robert and his friends…05:35
Jason, Neville (Reader)
11'You haven't seen Sergeant Saint-Loup, have you…'04:20
Jason, Neville (Reader)
12Alas, this phantom was just what I did see…07:29
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 6
1Meanwhile the winter was drawing to an end.05:02
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2She was now wearing lighter, or at any rate brighter, clothes…07:53
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3Saint-Loup came to Paris for a few hours only.06:30
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4My father had informed us that he now knew…07:41
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5My father had also another encounter about this time…06:31
Jason, Neville (Reader)
6I left the house early, with Françoise complaining bitterly…07:32
Jason, Neville (Reader)
7Never had Robert spoken to me so tenderly of his friend…05:59
Jason, Neville (Reader)
8Suddenly Saint-Loup appeared…08:23
Jason, Neville (Reader)
9It was not 'Rachel when from the Lord'…10:59
Jason, Neville (Reader)
10It was, by the way, quite true that she was 'literary'.08:07
Jason, Neville (Reader)
11She seemed anxious to pacify Robert…04:42
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 7
1If we were not yet in the theatre…05:57
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2Presently came a message that Robert was waiting…07:17
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3One number in the programme I found extremely trying.08:49
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4When, the curtain having fallen, we moved on to the stage…06:08
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5A group of men – journalists – noticing the look of fury…07:06
Jason, Neville (Reader)
6At that moment I saw Saint-Loup raise his arm…07:53
Jason, Neville (Reader)
7These incidents, particularly the one that was weighing…08:43
Jason, Neville (Reader)
8Moreover, talent is not a separate appendage…07:39
Jason, Neville (Reader)
9On the occasion of this first call…08:44
Jason, Neville (Reader)
10'Oh, Ministers, my dear sir,' Mme. de Villeparisis was saying…05:48
Jason, Neville (Reader)
11Earlier in the day Mme de Villeparisis might have been…05:09
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 8
1Presently there came into the room…09:13
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2'I understand, sir, that you thinkin' of writin' somethin'…'07:01
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3Meanwhile I had been talking to Bloch…08:15
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4Presently Mme de Villeparisis sat down again at her desk…08:10
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5That admirable writer G – entered the room…08:36
Jason, Neville (Reader)
6If, in the drawing-room of Mme de Villeparisis…07:10
Jason, Neville (Reader)
7The presence of Bergotte by my side…05:49
Jason, Neville (Reader)
8Everyone had gathered round Mme. de Villeparisis…05:50
Jason, Neville (Reader)
9Mme de Villeparisis rang the bell…05:28
Jason, Neville (Reader)
10'I have better news,' she murmured in my ear…07:07
Jason, Neville (Reader)
11She rang the bell…06:00
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 9
1'You must speak loud,' she warned Bloch…07:06
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2Before M de Norpois, under constraint from his hostess…07:19
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3'You know who we're talking about, Basin?' the Duchess asked…06:41
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4'Seven Princesses! Dear, dear, what a snob she must be!'05:15
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5'Tell me, my dear aunt,' M. de Guermantes inquired…06:32
Jason, Neville (Reader)
6Bloch was flattered by this picture of himself…05:53
Jason, Neville (Reader)
7M. de Guermantes uttered the words…07:23
Jason, Neville (Reader)
8'I think you're all equally tiresome…'08:48
Jason, Neville (Reader)
9Possibly the explanation of M. de Norpois speaking in this way…07:31
Jason, Neville (Reader)
10'You aren't going to Mme de Sagan's ball this evening?'06:29
Jason, Neville (Reader)
11M. de Norpois put these questions to Bloch…04:28
Jason, Neville (Reader)
12Bloch coloured; M. d'Argencourt smiled…06:00
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 10
1Full of curiosity and anxious to have more light thrown…08:58
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2In the country, Mme de Marsantes was adored…06:02
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3A faint smile made Mme de Guermantes's eyelashes quiver…06:21
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4The Prince's name preserved in the boldness…06:04
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5But Prince von Faffenheim was no simpleton.08:45
Jason, Neville (Reader)
6The following winter the Prince was seriously ill…09:04
Jason, Neville (Reader)
7The arrival of Mme Swann had a special interest for me…06:05
Jason, Neville (Reader)
8For the rest, Charles Morel seemed to have…05:34
Jason, Neville (Reader)
9Mme de Villeparisis meanwhile…05:40
Jason, Neville (Reader)
10I studied M. de Charlus.05:39
Jason, Neville (Reader)
11I have recorded a long way back…04:55
Jason, Neville (Reader)
12I was anxious nevertheless for information…06:25
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 11
1Robert called me away to the far end of the room…07:42
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2I should have liked to reply…08:04
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3I was fully aware that my company…07:06
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4Anxiously Mme de Marsantes bade me good-bye.04:14
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5As I went downstairs I heard behind me a voice…04:46
Jason, Neville (Reader)
6'You have enough intelligence, I suppose…'06:11
Jason, Neville (Reader)
7I warned him that, anyhow, Mme Bloch no longer existed…04:57
Jason, Neville (Reader)
8'Let us return to yourself,' he said…05:51
Jason, Neville (Reader)
9'I am sorry about that,' said M. de Charlus.09:19
Jason, Neville (Reader)
10As for myself, no sooner had I turned in at our gate…06:54
Jason, Neville (Reader)
11Cottard had told us to take her temperature.07:07
Jason, Neville (Reader)
12In spite of this more special competence…07:09
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 12
1Inasmuch as a great part of what doctors know…07:51
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2'But do you want me to take a cure like that, Sir?'08:44
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3I was startled to see her so flushed…06:39
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4Finally my grandmother emerged…05:37
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5Just as I was signalling to a cabman…06:23
Jason, Neville (Reader)
6And if Legrandin had looked back at us…07:01
Jason, Neville (Reader)
7The sun was sinking, it burnished an interminable wall…07:07
Jason, Neville (Reader)
8My mother and I (whose falsehood was exposed…)08:11
Jason, Neville (Reader)
9'Oh! My dear, it's dreadful to have to stay in bed…'05:27
Jason, Neville (Reader)
10My grandmother's illness gave occasion to various people…06:46
Jason, Neville (Reader)
11People of taste and refinement tell us nowadays…08:45
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 13
1On the sixth day…06:07
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2There came a time when her uraemic trouble…06:38
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3According to our doctor, this was a symptom…05:52
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4We went into the sickroom.09:33
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5A half-brother of my grandmother, who was in religion…05:45
Jason, Neville (Reader)
6For several nights now my father…07:42
Jason, Neville (Reader)
7To return now to those last hours…05:37
Jason, Neville (Reader)
8Chapter 205:00
Jason, Neville (Reader)
9There was no one else in the house but Françoise.06:51
Jason, Neville (Reader)
10To revert to where we were…06:48
Jason, Neville (Reader)
11I must say it at this point…08:15
Jason, Neville (Reader)
12As for this pleasure which by accomplishing my desire…04:54
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 14
1No doubt it does happen that women of moderate culture…05:49
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2As she uttered these words the door opened…08:08
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3I did not respond at once to this invitation…06:16
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4In addition, Albertine preserved, inseparably attached to her…05:24
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5Apart from the most recent applications…05:34
Jason, Neville (Reader)
6The exact opposite happened.05:50
Jason, Neville (Reader)
7Apart from this, Albertine's social ideas were fatuous…06:46
Jason, Neville (Reader)
8Albertine had made me so late…05:48
Jason, Neville (Reader)
9However that might be…05:15
Jason, Neville (Reader)
10At that moment Mme de Villeparisis entered the room.06:25
Jason, Neville (Reader)
11People who are merely fashionable…08:56
Jason, Neville (Reader)
12I was struck by the application of this last epithet…08:56
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 15
1The days that preceded my dinner with Mme de Stermaria…07:08
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2And then, the last carriage having rolled by…06:39
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3At the same time, my Balbec desires…07:26
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4The next day was cold and fine; winter was in the air…08:28
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5What added to my distress at not seeing Mme de Stermaria…07:27
Jason, Neville (Reader)
6The thought of course never entered my mind…05:11
Jason, Neville (Reader)
7If as I came downstairs I lived over again…05:57
Jason, Neville (Reader)
8I was astounded.06:21
Jason, Neville (Reader)
9As ill luck would have it…06:42
Jason, Neville (Reader)
10As I have mentioned the Prince de Foix…08:37
Jason, Neville (Reader)
11In politics the proprietor of this particular café…08:55
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 16
1After leaving us for a moment…06:34
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2'By the way, while I think of it, my uncle Charlus…'09:28
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3How much familiar intercourse with a Guermantes…06:17
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4This imagined remoteness of the past…06:18
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5The people who detested these 'horrors' were astonished…07:03
Jason, Neville (Reader)
6While I was examining Elstir's paintings…05:07
Jason, Neville (Reader)
7At the very outset I found myself completely bewildered.06:00
Jason, Neville (Reader)
8If M de Guermantes had been in such a haste to present me…06:43
Jason, Neville (Reader)
9But already the Duke, who seemed in a hurry…05:46
Jason, Neville (Reader)
10It seemed on the whole more plausible to regard me…09:39
Jason, Neville (Reader)
11I should add that one of the guests was still missing…10:00
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 17
1The other reason for the friendliness shown me…06:59
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2The Guermantes were just as idiomatic…06:11
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3To the most trivial statements made by intelligent people…04:56
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4A single point at which Guermantes and Courvoisiers converged…07:59
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5To return to the antipathy which animated…05:51
Jason, Neville (Reader)
6It is in a similar fashion…06:03
Jason, Neville (Reader)
7Well, to return to Mme des Laumes…05:39
Jason, Neville (Reader)
8Many of the friends of the Princesse de Parme…08:21
Jason, Neville (Reader)
9When the room became too crowded…07:08
Jason, Neville (Reader)
10With certain people (though these, it must be admitted…)05:52
Jason, Neville (Reader)
11It must be recognised also that the refinement of social life…06:18
Jason, Neville (Reader)
12The Duke and Duchess gave a very civil greeting…08:05
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 18
1And so, thanks on one occasion to 'Teaser Augustus'…07:55
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2The Courvoisiers were incapable of rising to the level…05:53
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3When a woman who was intelligent, educated, witty…07:37
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4As for social activities…06:58
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5M. de Guermantes at this period in his life…05:56
Jason, Neville (Reader)
6Very well, at this point in the social year…06:07
Jason, Neville (Reader)
7As a rule these handsome 'supers' had been his mistresses…07:46
Jason, Neville (Reader)
8No doubt the love which M. de Guermantes had had…06:07
Jason, Neville (Reader)
9'Oriane,' began the Princesse de Parme…06:03
Jason, Neville (Reader)
10'Which leads to some quite amusing scenes…'07:57
Jason, Neville (Reader)
11I let it be understood that I had no admiration…04:45
Jason, Neville (Reader)
12Far from condemning Mme d'Arpajon as absurd…05:49
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 19
1I was beginning to know them…05:32
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2Moved by this last quotation, Mme d'Arpajon exclaimed…06:22
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3It was Mme. de Chaussegros herself who had said…05:56
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4'Good Lord, yes,' he replied…06:07
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5'That portrait ought to appeal to Mme de Gallardon…'06:31
Jason, Neville (Reader)
6'Babal always knows everything…'06:04
Jason, Neville (Reader)
7'But you take the same view of my aunt…'05:29
Jason, Neville (Reader)
8'As we're discussing your family, Oriane…'06:05
Jason, Neville (Reader)
9'I really must go and see the Queen of Naples…'05:39
Jason, Neville (Reader)
10In the period that followed…05:51
Jason, Neville (Reader)
11Now, on this occasion, among the visitors…06:47
Jason, Neville (Reader)
12'Babal, you're divine, you know everything…'05:54
Jason, Neville (Reader)
13Mme de Guermantes was now nourishing a similar project…05:19
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 20
1'A good-looking boy, I believe?' she asked.05:40
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2'And is the Grand Duchess well?'04:37
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3M. de Guermantes, rejoicing that she should be speaking to me…07:01
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4Everyone smiled.06:04
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5'You are quite mistaken,' replied the Duchess…07:31
Jason, Neville (Reader)
6There was at Combray a Rue de Saintrailles…05:28
Jason, Neville (Reader)
7In middle-class families one sometimes sees…08:50
Jason, Neville (Reader)
8Better informed than his wife…06:18
Jason, Neville (Reader)
9I was privately convinced that all these stories…05:03
Jason, Neville (Reader)
10I did not even reply to the Ambassadress…06:37
Jason, Neville (Reader)
11However, my historical curiosity was faint…08:13
Jason, Neville (Reader)
12Just as I was about to leave…06:19
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 21
1An exaltation that sank only into melancholy…08:30
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2From this point of view…03:41
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3When all was said, very different in this respect…06:11
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4After a moment's silence I asked him…07:35
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5So far, I had never dreamed that M. de Charlus's rage…06:21
Jason, Neville (Reader)
6'Sir, I swear to you that I have said nothing…'06:31
Jason, Neville (Reader)
7'Sir,' I replied, moving away from him…07:07
Jason, Neville (Reader)
8'You will excuse my not accompanying you home…'08:38
Jason, Neville (Reader)
9'The Duchesse de Guermantes…'06:22
Jason, Neville (Reader)
10We are attracted by every form of life…06:27
Jason, Neville (Reader)
11The fact remains, nevertheless…06:49
Jason, Neville (Reader)
Disc 22
1On the day on which the party was to be given…06:46
Jason, Neville (Reader)
2'You shall see Oriane in a minute,' the Duke told me…06:21
Jason, Neville (Reader)
3The Duke appeared touched that I should have come…05:49
Jason, Neville (Reader)
4The Duke called back the footman…06:16
Jason, Neville (Reader)
5'To be sure, it is,' said the Duke…09:08
Jason, Neville (Reader)
6M. de Guermantes returned…05:37
Jason, Neville (Reader)
7'Oriane, you might at least tell the story properly…'07:57
Jason, Neville (Reader)
8Another footman came into the room.05:40
Jason, Neville (Reader)
9The footman returned with the Comtesse Mole's card…07:05
Jason, Neville (Reader)
10'Listen, Basin, I ask for nothing better…'06:20
Jason, Neville (Reader)
11'What's that you say?' cried the Duchess…06:46
Jason, Neville (Reader)

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