Editions

In Search of Lost Time, Vol 2

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099362319

  • Length: 656  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 33mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 472g

  • RRP: £9.99

In Search of Lost Time, Vol 2

  • Within a Budding Grove

  • Marcel Proust

  • C. K. Scott Moncrieff (Translator)

  • D J Enright (Translator)

  • Terence Kilmartin (Translator)

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.

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099362319

  • Length: 656  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 33mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 472g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • Scott Moncrieff's translation was rather like swimming through syrup...Kilmartin and Enright have produced a version that wonderfully proves the greatness of this novel, this novelist. The prose that describes Swann's sexual obsession, for instance, is so good you have to stop after many a paragraph, re-read, think over it

    Melvyn Bragg, Guardian

  • What a genius! Whole pages cascade, like great jazz slaloms

    Bill Nighy, The Times

  • One of the cornerstones of the Western literary canon

    The Times

  • Surely the greatest novelist of the 20th century

    Sunday Telegraph

  • As close to being a definitive English version of the great novel as we are likely to get. This new edition will serve to introduce new generations of readers to what Somerset Maugham rightly described as the greatest novel of our century

    Allan Massie, Scotsman

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About the Author

Marcel Proust

Proust was born in Auteuil, France in 1871. He began writing his masterpiece, À la recherche du temps perdu, in 1909, and worked on it until his death in 1922, following several years of poor health during which he had been confined to his bedroom.

Marcel Proust

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