Within A Budding Grove: Classic literature (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781544218205)

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 she herself had quite ceased to see anything of Swann, since either of these might have helped to entertain the old 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 from the housetops the name of everyone that he knew, however slightly, was an impossible vulgarian whom the Marquis de Norpois would be sure to dismiss as-to use his own epithet-a 'pestilent' fellow.

Author: Ck Scott Moncrieff,Marcel Proust
ISBN-10: 1544218206
ISBN-13: 9781544218205
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 03/02/1913
Pages: 514
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.64lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.15d