Marcel Proust: A Biography

by George Duncan Painter · 1965

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Painter exhausted all available resources to create this portrait not only of Proust and his work but also of turn-of-the-century France with its salons, its political tension, its poets and its painters. 24 photos.

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biographybiographyMore like thisLess of this
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ParisParisMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
long · 446 pages

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