In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]. Marcel Proust

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      Marcel Proust

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      IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME (COMPLETE COLLECTION)

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      À la Recherche du temps perdu

      Translated from the French by

       C. K. Scott Moncrieff and

       Stephen Hudson

       Swann’s Way

       Overture

       Combray

       Swann in Love

       Place-Names: The Name

       Within a Budding Grove

       Seascape, with Frieze of Girls

      Dinners at Rivebelle—Enter Albertine.

       Madame Swann at Home

      A break in the narrative: old friends in new aspects—The Marquis de Norpois—Bergotte—How I cease for the time being to see Gilberte: a general outline of the sorrow caused by a parting and of the irregular process of oblivion.

       Place-Names: The Place

      My first visit to Balbec—First impressions of M. de Charlus and of Robert de Saint-Loup—Dinner with Bloch and his family.

       The Guermantes Way

       Chapter One

      Names of People: The Duchesse de Guermantes—Saint-Loup at Doncières—Mme. de Villeparisis at home—My grandmother’s illness—Bergotte’s illness—The Duke and the Doctor—Decline and death of my grandmother.

       Chapter Two

      A visit from Albertine—Prospect of rich brides for certain friends of Saint-Loup—The wit of the Guermantes, as displayed before the Princesse de Parme—A strange visit to M. de Charlus—His character puzzles me more and more—The red shoes of the Duchess.

       Cities of the Plain

       Introduction

      Introducing the men-women, descendants of those of the inhabitants of Sodom who were spared by the fire from heaven.

       Chapter One

      M. de Charlus in Society.—A physician.—Typical physiognomy of Mme. de Vaugoubert.—Mme. d’Arpajon, the Hubert Robert fountain and the merriment of the Grand Duke Vladimir.—Mmes. d’Amoncourt, de Citri, de Saint-Euverte, etc.—Curious conversation between Swann and the Prince de Guermantes.—Albertine on the telephone.—My social life in the interval before my second and final visit to Balbec. Arrival at Balbec.

       The Heart’s Intermissions

       Chapter Two

      The mysteries of Albertine—The girls whom she sees reflected in the glass—The other woman—The lift-boy—Madame de Cambremer.

       Chapter Two (continued)

      The pleasures of M. Nissim Bernard—Outline of the strange character of Morel—M. de Charlus dines with the Verdurins.

       Chapter Three

      The sorrows of M. de Charlus.—His sham duel.—The stations on the ‘Transatlantic.’—Weary of Albertine I decide to break with her.

       Chapter Four

      Sudden revulsion in favour of Albertine.—Agony at sunrise.—I set off at once with Albertine for Paris.

       The Captive

       Chapter One

      Life with Albertine

       Chapter Two

      The Verdurins Quarrel with M. De Charlus

       Chapter Two (continued)

       Chapter Three

      Flight of Albertine

       The Sweet Cheat Gone

       Chapter One

      Grief and Oblivion

       Chapter Two

      Mademoiselle De Forcheville

       Chapter Three

      Venice

       Chapter Four

      A Fresh Light Upon Robert De Saint-Loup

       Time Regained

       Chapter One

      Tansonville

       Chapter Two

      M. de Charlus during the war, his opinions, his pleasures

       Chapter Three

      An afternoon party at the house of the Princesse de Guermantes

      Marcel Proust

      IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME

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      SWANN’S

       WAY

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