The Sweet Cheat Gone

Description

In The Sweet Cheat Gone, the Narrator is anguished at Albertine's departure and absence. He dispatches Saint-Loup to convince her aunt Mme Bontemps to send her back, but Albertine insists the Narrator should ask, and she will gladly return. The Narrator lies and replies he is done with her, but she just agrees with him. He writes to her that he will marry Andrée, then hears from Saint-Loup of the failure of his mission to the aunt. Desperate, he begs Albertine to return, but receives word: she has died in a riding accident. He receives two last letters from her: one wishing him and Andrée well, and one asking if she can return. The Narrator plunges into suffering amid the many different memories of Albertine, intimately linked to all of his everyday sensations.

№ 6 in the In Search Of Lost Time series.

This book has 253 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1925.

Production notes: This ebook of The Sweet Cheat Gone was published by Global Grey in 2018.