<p>In this second volume of <i>In Search of Lost Time</i>, the narrator turns from the childhood reminiscences of <i>Swann¿s Way</i> to memories of his adolescence. Having gradually become indifferent to Swann¿s daughter Gilberte, the narrator visits the seaside resort of Balbec with his grandmother and meets a new object of attention¿Albertine, ¿a girl with brilliant, laughing eyes and plump, matt cheeks.¿<br><br>For this authoritative English-language edition, D. J. Enright has revised the late Terence Kilmartin¿s acclaimed reworking of C. K. Scott Moncrieff¿s translation to take into account the new definitive French editions of <i>¿ la recherch¿u temps perdu</i> (the final volume of these new editions was published by the Biblioth¿e de la Pl¿de in 1989).</p>