In Search Of Lost Time Volume Ⅱ Within A Budding Grove

THE ACCLAIMED FULLY REVISED EDITION OF THE SCOTT MONCRIEFF AND KILMARTIN TRANSLATION

Within a Budding Grove describes the first shoots of an astonishing love affair. When Proust's adolescent narrator travels from Paris to the sunny seaside town of Balbec he meets an intriguing set of new acquaintances who provide him with both friendship and entertainment. Most significantly of all he meets a dark-haired girl with sparkling eyes and a tiny beauty spot on her chin: the mysterious Albertine, who will become the great love of his life.

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The definitive text of the novel was published by Bibliothèque de la Pléiade in 1989. This edition is based on that text and uses the classic translation by C.K. Scott Moncrieff revised by Terence Kilmartin, with additional new material and further revisions by D.J. Enright.

Each volume contains notes, addenda and synopses, and the sixth volume includes a guide to the complete work.

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The Vintage Classics translation of Proust was voted in the top 50 translations of the last 50 years in a Times poll voted for by the Translators' Association of the Society of Authors

Marcel Proust was born in Auteuil in 1871. In his twenties he became a conspicuous society figure, frequenting the most fashionable Paris salons of the day. After 1889, however, his suffering from chronic asthma, the death of his parents and his growing disillustionment with humanity caused him to lead an increasingly retired life. He slept by day and worked by night, writing letters and devoting himself to the completion of A la recherche du temps perdu. He died in 1922 before publication of the last three volumes of his great life's work.