This tribute to Marcel Proust gathers leading writers and critics in a chorus of admiration, debate, and discovery, reflecting on the life, art, and growing English reputation of the author of In Search of Lost Time. C. K. Scott Moncrieff's introduction explains that Proust's death inspired the volume and that the essays were assembled to test the strength of his English following, while also acknowledging the translator's own struggle with the demanding text. Across the collection, Proust emerges as a singular figure: warm yet aloof, intellectually relentless, socially penetrating, and incapable of falsehood or boredom. Contributors praise his ability to turn the smallest details of existence into moments of spiritual and emotional magnitude, and to make childhood, memory, and duration feel newly alive. Others place him in a literary lineage from Richardson and Stendhal, showing how he transformed the psychological novel into something more exacting and modern. The essays also probe the painful machinery of desire in Proust's world: jealousy, waiting, class tension, and suffering become the education of the soul. From Albertine's torment to the elusive Gilberte and the awakening of first love, the collection reveals how Proust made longing, loss, and memory into the deepest truths of human experience. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.