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In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
Author: Marcel Proust
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is Proust’s spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, charged with the narrator’s memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside. At the heart of the story lie his relationships with his grandmother and with the Swann family. As a meditation on different forms of love, In the...  more » has no equal. Here, Proust introduces some of his greatest comic inventions, from the magnificently dull M. de Norpois to the enchanting Robert de Saint-Loup. It is memorable as well for the first appearance of the two figures who for better or worse are to dominate the narrator’s life—the Baron de Charlus and the mysterious Albertine.
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ISBN-13: 9780143039075
ISBN-10: 0143039075
Publication Date: 1/25/2005
Pages: 576
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Publisher: Penguin Classics
Book Type: Paperback
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