In Search of Lost Time; Swann's Way, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower Part I & Sketches

by Marcel Proust

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Volume 2 of a handsome new edition of the original French version of Marcel Proust's justly celebrated 7-volume master-work, ' la recherche du temps perdu'. In the three parts of the second volume, ' l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs', set in Paris and the fictional seaside resort of Balbec, the narrator continues his social education and develops relationships, especially with Gilberte, Mme Swann and Rachel in Paris and Robert de Saint-Loup, Elstir and Augustine and her friends in Balbec.… (more)

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C'est le début. On s'accroche. C'est difficile de lire de longues phrases... Mais petit à petit, après un premier échec à la fin "du côtéde chez Swann", on repart et on ne lâche plus. (

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This is the 1st volume of the 4-volume Pléiade edition of Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu. This particular volume contains both book 1, Du côté de chez Swann, and the first part of book 2, À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs (première partie), as well as "Esquisses."

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Volume 2 of a handsome new edition of the original French version of Marcel Proust's justly celebrated 7-volume master-work, ' la recherche du temps perdu'. In the three parts of the second volume, ' l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs', set in Paris and the fictional seaside resort of Balbec, the narrator continues his social education and develops relationships, especially with Gilberte, Mme Swann and Rachel in Paris and Robert de Saint-Loup, Elstir and Augustine and her friends in Balbec.

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