Remembrance of Things Past, Volume IIBy: Marcel Proust From the French intellectual, novelist, essayist, critic, and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century: the second volume of Proust's monumental achievement Remembrance of Things Past, collecting The Guermantes Way and Cities of the Plain. In C. K. Scott Moncrieff's heralded original English translation, as revised by Terence Kilmartin based on the definitive French Pliade edition. Marcel Proust's masterpiece is one of