Swann's Way

It all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps a new series of twenty-six collectible and hardcover editions each with a type cover showcasing a gorgeously illustrated letter of the alphabet. In a design collaboration between Jessica Hische and Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley the series features unique cover art by Hische a superstar in the world of type design and illustration whose work has appeared everywhere from Tiffany & Co. to Wes Anderson's recent film <i>Moonrise Kingdom</i> to Penguin's own bestsellers <i>Committed</i> and <i>Rules of Civility</i>. With exclusive designs that have never before appeared on Hische's hugely popular <i>Daily Drop Cap</i> blog the Penguin Drop Caps series debuted with an 'A' for Jane Austen's <i>Pride and Prejudice</i> a 'B' for Charlotte Brönte's <i>Jane Eyre</i> and a 'C' for Willa Cather's <i>My Ántonia</i>. It continues with more perennial classics perfect to give as elegant gifts or to showcase on your own shelves. <p/><b>P is for Proust.</b> <i>Swann's Way</i> is one of the preeminent novels of childhood: a sensitive boy's impressions of his family and neighbors all brought dazzlingly back to life years later by a taste of a madeleine. It also enfolds the short novel Swann in Love an incomparable study of sexual jealousy that becomes a crucial part of the vast unfolding structure in I<i>n Search of Lost Time</i>. The first volume of the work that established Proust as one of the finest voices of the modern age--satirical skeptical confiding and endlessly varied in his response to the human condition--<i>Swann's Way</i> also stands on its own as a perfect rendering of a life in art of the past recreated through memory.