The Squashed edition of The Remembrance of Times Past (A la recherche du
temps perdu / In Search of Lost Time) by Marcel Proust. Abridged from
the original text to read in an hour or so. Squashed editions are
precise abridgements - the original ideas, in their own words, the full
beam of the book, the quotable quotes and all the famous lines, but
neatly honed down to the length of a readable short story. "Like reading
the bible without all the begats" - Prof. Jim Curtis