In Search of Lost Time: Volume II: Within a Budding Grove

Overview

First published in 1919, Within a Budding Grove was awarded the Prix Goncourt, bringing the author immediate fame. In this second volume of In Search of Lost Time, the narrator turns from the childhood reminiscences of Swann's Way to memories of his adolescence. Having gradually become indifferent to Swann's daughter Gilberte, the narrator visits the seaside resort of Balbec with his grandmother and meets a new object of attention--Albertine, "a girl with brilliant, laughing eyes and plump, matt cheeks."

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Bio of Marcel Prevost

Marcel Prevost was born in Auteuil in 1871. In his twenties, he became a conspicuous society figure, frequenting the most fashionable Paris salons of the day. From 1907, however, he rarely emerged from a cork-lined room in his apartment on the Boulevard Hausman. He slept by day and worked by night, writing letters and devoting himself to the completion of Ala R'ch'rche du Temps Perdu. He died in 1922 before the publication of the last three volumes of his great work.

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Imprint

Modern Library

Filesize

1.30 MB

Number of Pages

784

eBook ISBN

9780679641797