Proust in One (e-)Volume

Book publisher Bonnierförlagen recently released a treasure trove of classics available for the first time as e-books in Swedish. Among the titles is Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past, as six separate books or in one giant e-volume.

“It’s fantastic to re-release classics of this caliber, plus to guarantee that they’ll always be available for readers,” says Magnus Nytell of Bonnierförlagen Digital, which is behind the release. “Last year we digitalized a thousand Swedish titles. This year we’ve started a huge initiative with translated literature and these books are just the beginning.”

The first releases came out on December 16. The books are available via Adlibris and other e-book retailers in Sweden, as well as from Apple.

The current release includes books from authors including Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Emily Brontë, Jane Austen, Franz Kafka, George Eliot, James Joyce, Elizabeth Gaskell and Fyodor Dostoyevsky.