Within a Budding Grove - In search of lost time;

Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust ; 10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922, was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time; earlier translated as Remembrance of Things Past). It was published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927.