Within a Budding Grove
by Marcel Proust
French • Volume 2 of In Search of Lost Time • Public Domain • Free to stream
Volume 2 of In Search of Lost Time. The narrator enters Parisian society, falls in love for the first time with Gilberte, and travels to Balbec by the sea, where he meets Albertine and the band of young girls who will haunt his life. Awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1919.
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Within a Budding Grove was written by Marcel Proust as volume 2 of In Search of Lost Time.
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