Within a Budding Grove (also published as In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower) originally appeared in France as À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs in 1919. This translation is by C. K. Scott Moncrieff.

Marcel Proust (1871 – 1922) was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist who is considered by critics and writers to be one of the most influential authors of the 20th century.