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Within A Budding Grove Part 2

AuthorMarcel Proust

NarratorNeville Jason

Duration3h 45m

CategoriesAdult Fiction, Novels, LGBTQ+ Literature

PublisherNaxos

VersionAbridged

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Based on the definitive edition and translation of the classic French novel, the second volume, which won the Prix Goncourt in 1919, follows the narrator's transition from childhood to adolescence and first love on the beaches of Normandy. As the novel ends, we are introduced to Albertine, whom the narrator meets in a Norman ocean-side resort named Balbec - and who he earmarks for future conquest. Part two of the third volume of Proust's 'Remembrance of Things Past' series.

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