In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 2 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

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 Shadow of Young Girls in Flower 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.

• The Guermantes Way
• Sodom and Gomorrah: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 4 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
• Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
• The Prisoner: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 5 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
• Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time: A Reader's Guide to The Remembrance of Things Past
• Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp (New York Review Books Classics)
• The Captive & The Fugitive: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. V (Modern Library Classics) (v. 5)
• Time Regained: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. VI (Modern Library Classics) (v. 6)
• Proust's Way: A Field Guide to in Search of Lost Time
• Paintings in Proust: A Visual Companion to In Search of Lost Time