Annabel Lee is the last complete poem composed by the renowned American author Edgar Allan Poe. It is a haunting tale of love and loss, set in a mystical kingdom by the sea. The narrator fell deeply in love with Annabel Lee in their youth, a love so profound that even the angels envied it.

Despite the tragic passing of Annabel Lee, the narrator's love for her endures, undiminished by time or circumstance. This timeless poem evokes the beauty and tragedy of eternal love and captures the reader's imagination with its lyrical quality and poignant theme.

Set against the rugged, wind-swept landscapes of the Gaspé Peninsula in Quebec, Annabel Lee remains a testament to the enduring power of love, even in the face of death.

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is Marcel Proust’s spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence. The narrative is charged with the narrator’s memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside.

At the heart of the story lies 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 are to dominate the narrator’s life—the Baron de Charlus and the mysterious Albertine.