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First published in 1919, Inside a Budding Grove was awarded the Prix Goncourt, bringing the writer immediate fame. In this second amount of Looking For Lost-Time, the narrator turns from the childhood reminiscences of Swann’s Method to recollections of his adolescence. Getting gradually become indifferent to Swann’s child Gilberte, the narrator visits the beach resort of Balbec with his grandma and meets a brand new item of attention—Albertine, “a woman with amazing, laughing eyes and fat, matt cheeks.”For this authoritative english language version, Deb. T.