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In Search of Lost Time: Volume 2

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

Marcel Proust author James Grieve translator Christopher Prendergast editor James Grieve editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:2nd Oct '03

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In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is a spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, and an unequalled meditation on different forms of love, charged with the narrator's memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside, and his relationships with his grandmother and the Swann family.

An English translation of the French original.

Since the original, prewar translation there has been no completely new rendering of the French original into English. This translation brings to the fore a more sharply engaged, comic and lucid Proust. IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME is one of the greatest, most entertaining reading experiences in any language. As the great story unfolds from its magical opening scenes to its devastating end, it is the Penguin Proust that makes Proust accessible to a new generation.
Each book is translated by a different, superb translator working under the general editorship of Professor Christopher Prendergast, University of Cambridge.

ISBN: 9780141180328

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 24mm

Weight: 394g

576 pages

2nd edition