The Guermantes Way. Marcel Proust

       Published by

      Advanced Digital Solutions & High-Quality eBook Formatting

       [email protected] 2017 OK Publishing ISBN 978-80-272-2182-0

      Table of Contents

       Part 1

       Chapter One. The Duchesse de Guermantes

       Part 2

       Chapter One (continued). My Grandmother's Illness

       Chapter Two. A Visit from Albertine

      TRANSLATOR'S DEDICATION

      To MRS. H———, on her Birthday

      Oberon, in the Athenian glade,Reduced by deft Titania's power,Invented arts for Nature's aidAnd from a snowflake shaped a flower: Nature, to outdo him, wrought of human clayA fairy blossom, which we acclaim to-day. Hebe, to high Olympus borne,Undoomed to death, by age uncurst, Xeres and Porto, night and morn,Let flow, to appease celestial thirst:Ev'n so, untouched by years that envious pass Youth greets the guests to-night and fills the glass. Hesione, for monstrous feast,Against a rock was chained, to die;Young Hercles came, he slew the beast,Nor won the award of chivalry: E. S. P. H., whom monsters hold in awe,Shield thee from injury, and enforce the law!

      C. K. S. M.