Fascinated by the aristocratic Guermantes family, the narrator pursues an entrée into their salons even as his grandmother's health fails and his friend Saint-Loup's engagement collapses under the weight of high society's cruelty.
Books mentioned in The Guermantes Way (2)
Phèdre by Jean Racine: “I took my seat, striving all the time to recapture a line from _Phèdre_ which I could not quite remember.”
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas: “without needing to be Thirteen, as in Balzac’s story, or Four, as in _The Three Musketeers_.”