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The Captive and The Fugitive: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 5 (In Search of Lost Time, 5)
0300186215 pdf An authoritative new edition of Marcel Prousts The Captive and The Fugitive, published together as the fifth volume of his epic masterwork, In Search of Lost Time Marcel Prousts monumental seven-part novel In Search of Lost Time is considered by many to be the greatest novel of the twentieth century. The Captive and The Fugitive, the fifth and sixth volumes of Prousts masterpiece, contain some of literatures most beautiful meditations on art, music, desire, jealousy, love and loss, grieving and forgetting. In this work, Proust continues his vast satirical fresco of high society in France just prior to the outbreak of World War I. These volumes and the following volume were published posthumously, as Proust died when he was approximately one-third of the way through correcting the proofs for Read more