In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

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 st…

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