Remembrance of Things Past: Part Two: Within a Budding Grove

by Marcel Proust and Stéphane Heuet

Book Overview

In this conclusion to this section of Proust's classic, the meaning of 'budding grove' is finally revealed. As the summer on the beach winds down, the adolescent Proust is increasingly smitted by the young beauties his age he passes but never gets to meet...until a well-known painter gives him that very chance. The romantic anticipation, the teasing sensations, the fantasised expectations mixed with the summer sun, the sea breeze... some things never...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1561633429
• ISBN13: 9781561633425
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.9" x 11.4"

Customer Reviews

Simplistic yet evocative full-color art

Remembrance Of Things Past Part Two: Within A Budding Grove is the second novel of an English-language, graphic novel adaptation and illustrated by Stephane Heuet of Marcel Proust's classic work of European literature. The simplistic yet evocative full-color art and the delicate lettering bring the formal style of the nineteenth-century era to life in this enchanting and attention engaging presentation. Highly Recommended!