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        In Search of Lost Time


        setting

        France

        time

        1900s

        language

        French

        region

        Western Europe

        year published

        1913

        page count

        4211

        difficulty

        Extreme

        main characters

        The Narrator, the Guermantes, the Swanns

        Rip's impressions

        Reserved for Guest Editor

        first line

        The Captive: At daybreak, my face still turned to the wall, and before I had seen above the big window-curtains what tone the first streaks of light assumed, I could already tell what the weather was like. The Fugitive: "Mademoiselle Albertine is gone!"