In the Shadow of Young Girls, by Marcel Proust. The second book of Proust’s seven-volume In Search of Lost Time is even funnier, stranger and sharper than the first, centering on a trip via train to the French coast where Marcel makes new friends and falls in love.
My absolute favorite volume of the Search....gorgeous...Planning trip to Cabourg & Le Grand Hôtel one day.
Tell us about the gorgeous picture?
I did a reverse image search, it's an eponymous painting by Snezana Djordjevic. www.singulart.com/en/artworks/...
Thanks!
Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh. If I read a better book this year, I can’t think what it was. Charles Ryder’s Oxford is the best portrayal of the city in print, and the story of his fraught relationship with the Flyte family over several decades is unbearably moving.
I love this book. It’s been way too long since I’ve read it, but it’s stuck with me so powerfully. Plus, Aloysius is one of my favorite fictional teddy bears.
Brideshead is the definition of poignant. I saw the series before I read the book and both are amazing.
I love this so much, and whenever I try to read any of Waugh's other work, I'm desperately disappointed. Do any of them have the beauty and ache of Brideshead?
One of my partners favourite books. The BBC series is a masterpiece
Evelyn Waugh is just so witty and sharp, love his books!
I have been listening to the audiobook. It is read by Jeremy Irons and is wonderful!
What a lovely list, and so beautifully illustrated. Thank you for sharing these suggestions.
I haven't read this since I was at uni which was *some* time ago. I must re-read it I remember it being one of those books that's so well written you can't help but become completely immersed in it. I'll add it to the list!