Volume 2 of a handsome new edition of the original French version of Marcel Proust's justly celebrated 7-volume master-work, 'Ŕ la recherche du temps perdu'. In the three parts of the second volume, 'Ŕ 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.