Pleasures and Regrets Author:Marcel Proust Here are the captivating stories with which Marcel Proust first enchanted the literary world. PLEASURES AND REGRETS foreshadows the beautiful, melancholic tenderness of REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST. This early collection is a fascinating introduction to Proust's world of love and jealousy, decadence and snobbery, worldliness and remorse, desolate ... more »splendor and elegant sorrows .« less