The Sweet Cheat Gone (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books, ML 260)

379, [3] pp. The sixth of seven parts in Proust's magnum opus, The Remembrance of Things Past (sometimes translated as In Search of Lost Time). Albertine has finally escaped her 'imprisonment' from Marcel's Paris apartment... Not only is Marcel quite unprepared for the effect her flight has on him, but also soon he is devastated by news of an even more irreversible loss.