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The Captive

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4.4 out of 5
Based on 172 Ratings and 75 Reviews

Book Description
Marcel Proust whiled away the first half of his life as a self-conscious aesthete and social climber. The second half he spent in the creation of the mighty roman-fleuve that is Remembrance of Things Past, memorializing his own dandyism and parvenu hijinks even as he revealed their essential hollowness. Proust begins, of course, at the beginning--with the earliest childhood perceptions and sor... More
Book Information
PublisherKessinger Publishing Company
BindingPaperback
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages572
ISBN-101417929413
ISBN-13978-1417929412
Publication Date06/2004
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About Marcel Proust (Author) : Marcel Proust is a published author. Some of the published credits of Marcel Proust include The captive, Un Amour De Swann (Petits Classiques Larousse).
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About C. K. Scott-Moncrieff (Translator) : C. K. Scott-Moncrieff is a published translator. Published credits of C. K. Scott-Moncrieff include The Red and the Black (Dodo Press), The Captive.
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