| In Search of Lost Time: Within a Budding Grove V. 2 (Revised) Revised Edition Contributor(s): Proust, Marcel (Author), Moncrieff, C. K. Scott (Translator), Kilmartin, Terence (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0375752196 ISBN-13: 9780375752193 Publisher: Modern Library OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1998 Annotation: 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." For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartin's acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieff's translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of "A la recherche du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Bibliotheque de la Pleiade in 1989). |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Literary Criticism - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Modern Library (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 1.37" H x 5.28" W x 7.93" (1.26 lbs) 784 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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." For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartin's acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieff's translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of la recherch du temps perdu (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Biblioth que de la Pl iade in 1989). |