John Ruskin (1819-1900) published Sesame and Lilies in 1865 when he was forty-six. In 1906, six years after Ruskin's death, Marcel Proust (1871-1922) published the preface On Reading and his translation of Sesame and Lilies when he was thirty-five. This is the first translation into English of Proust's work which, in addition to the preface and translation, includes copious notes. This translation is based on the text published by Editions Payot & Rivages in 2011."