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Description

The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and The Fugitive (1925). In The Captive , Proust’s narrator describes living in his mother’s Paris apartment with his lover, Albertine, and subsequently falling out of love with her. In The... read more

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First Sentence

At daybreak, my face still turned to the wall, and before I had seen above the big window-curtains what shade of colour the first streaks of light assumed, I could already tell what the weather was like.

Series

This book is in the In Search of Lost Time series.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Marcel Proust (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. Terence Kilmartin
  2. C.K. Scott Moncrieff
  3. D. J. Enright
 

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