Within a Budding Grove, Remembrance of Things Past, Vol 2, Marcel Proust

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (À l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, also translated as Within a Budding Grove), published in 1919, was scheduled to be published in 1914 but was delayed by the onset of World War I.

At the same time, Grasset’s firm was closed down when the publisher went into military service.

This freed Proust to move to Gallimard, where all of the subsequent volumes were published. Meanwhile, the novel kept growing in length and in conception. When published, this volume was awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1919.