This is the third volume of Proust's In Search Of Lost Time. After the relative intimacy of the first two volumes of In Search of Lost Time, The Guermantes Way opens up a vast, dazzling landscape of fashionable Parisian life in the late nineteenth century. The Narrator's family has moved to an apartment connected with the Guermantes residence. The Guermantes Way defines the great tradition of novels that follow the initiation of a young man into the ways of the world.