The Sweet Cheat Gone by Marcel Proust, C. K. Scott Moncrieff
Publisher’s Note
Marcel Proust's continuous novel À la Recherche du Temps Perdu (REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST) was originally published in eight parts, the titles and dates of which were: I. Du Coté de Chez Swann (1913); II. À l'Ombre des Jeunes Filles en Fleurs (1918), awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1919; III. Le Côté de Guermantes I (1920); IV. Le Côté de Guermantes II, Sodome et Gomorrhe I (1921); V. Sodome et Gomorrhe II (1922); VI. La Prisonnière (1923); VII. Albertine Disparue (1925); VIII. Le Temps Retrouvé (1927).
Du Côté de Chez Swann has been published in English as SWANN'S WAY; À l'Ombre des Jeunes Filles en Fleurs as WITHIN A BUDDING GROVE; Le Côté de Guermantes as THE GUERMANTES WAY; Sodome et Gomorrhe as CITIES OF THE PLAIN; La Prisonnière as THE CAPTIVE; Albertine Disparue as THE SWEET CHEAT GONE; and Le Temps Retrouvé as TIME REGAINED. The first seven parts were translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff; the eighth was first translated for Chatto & Windus by Stephen Hudson.