The Guermantes Way

In Search of Lost Time, Volume 2: Within a Budding Grove (Modern Library) (v. 2)

Author: Marcel Proust

THE ACCLAIMED FULLY REVISED EDITION OF THE SCOTT MONCRIEFF AND KILMARTIN TRANSLATIONIn The Guermantes Way Proust’s narrator recalls his initiation into the dazzling world of Parisian high society. Looking back over his time in the glamorous salons of the aristocracy, he satirises this shallow world and his own youthful infatuation with it. His observations, and his experie….Read More

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