Remembrance of Things Past
- ISBN-10
- 039471184X
- ISBN-13
- 9780394711843
- Series
- Remembrance of Things Past
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 1128
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1981
- Author
- Marcel Proust
Description
Follows the narrator's recollections of childhood and experiences into adulthood in the late 19th century and early 20th century aristocratic France, while reflecting on the loss of time and lack of meaning to the world.
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