Budding Grove
Marcel Proust
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Description
Within a Budding Grove is a novel by Marcel Proust, in Scott Moncrieff's English version, printed at New York. The Modern Library issued it, under a copyright of 1924. The translator's dedication, dated at Bad Kissingen on July 31, 1923, is a poem to a dead friend. It speaks of friends garnered in the cold granaries of death.
Part one, Madame Swann at Home, brings old friends in new aspects: the Marquis de Norpois, Bergotte, and a parting from Gilberte. Place-names follow, with the narrator's first visit to Balbec. Part two introduces Charlus and Robert de Saint-Loup, dinners at Rivebelle, and Albertine among a frieze of girls. The novel opens with a family debate over guests.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Marcel Proust |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 1.2 MB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |