Swan's Love: a novel.

«Swan's Love» is the central episode of the first book of Marcel Proust's seven-volume epic «In Search of Lost Time». Charles Swan is one of the most elegant members of the jockey club, a friend of the Count of Paris and the Prince of Wales, a desirable guest in aristocratic and artistic salons, and a great lover of women. This book tells the story of Swan's passionate love for the charming «lady of the demi-monde», Odette de Crécy.