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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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The Captive
by Marcel Proust (Author)Adult/High School-This unusual pairing of literary forms offers the ornate and reflective prose of Proust retold within a graphic-novel format. In adapting a portion of the writer's massive, pathologically contemplative roman-fleuve, Heuet...
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- Mademoiselle Albertine: Add a description of this character.
- M. De Charlus
- Andree
- Francoise
- Mme Verdurin
- Morel
- Mme Swann
- Mlle Vinteuil
- Gilberte
- Mme De Guermantes
- Robert
- Brichot
- Charlie
- Bloch
- Bergotte
- M. De Norpois
- Monsieur
- Mme Bontemps
- Rachel
- M. Verdurin
- Mamma
- Balbec
- Mme De Villeparisis
- Odette
- Hippolyte
- Elstir
- Wagner
- Gisele
- Madame
- Leonie
- M. De Guermantes
- Mlle Albertine
- Mme De Cambremer
- Esther
- Mme De Marsantes
- Mme Sazerat
- Mlle Swann
- M. De Breaute
- Aime
- Legrandin
- Saniette
- Mme De Mortemart
First Sentence edit
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.
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Page Count: 992
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- Dewey: 843.912
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