In Search of Lost Time, Vol. II
Subtitle: Within a Budding Grove (Modern Library Classics)
Contributors: C.K. Scott Moncrieff (Translator); Terence Kilmartin (Translator)
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: November 3, 1998
Language: eng
Number of pages: 784
ISBN-13: 9780375752193
First sentence: My mother, when it was a question of our having M. de Norpois to dinner for the first time, having expressed her regret that Professor Cottard was away from home and that the herself had quite ceased to see anything of Swann, since either of these might have helped to entertain the ex-ambassador, my father replied that so eminent a guest, so distinguished, a man of science as Cottard could never be out of place at a dinner-table, but that Swann, with his ostentation, his habit of crying aloud form the house-tops the name of everyone he knew, however slightly, was a vulgar show-off whom the Marquis de Norpois would be sure to dismiss as-to use his own epithet-a "pestilent" fellow.