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| Translator's Note | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Roots | |
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| Auteuil | |
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| Illiers | |
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| The Weil Family | |
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| Jeanne Proust | |
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| Adrien Proust | |
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| Childhood | |
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| The Curls | |
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| The Evening Kiss | |
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| At the Champs-Elysees | |
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| Onanism | |
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| The Underworld of the Swimming Pool | |
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| The First Attack of Asthma | |
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| Childhood Reading | |
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| The Schoolboy | |
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| An Unassuming Pupil | |
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| Rhetorique | |
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| Madame Straus | |
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| Philosophie | |
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| Magazines | |
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| Summer Holidays (1889-91) | |
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| Ostende, the Finalys | |
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| Madame Arman de Caillavet | |
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| Proust and France | |
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| Military Service | |
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| Gaston and Jeanne | |
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| The Death of the Grandmother | |
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| The End of National Service | |
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| L'Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques | |
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| Le Mensuel | |
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| From Le Banquet to La Revue blanche | |
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| Wilde | |
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| Princesse Mathilde | |
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| Bergson | |
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| Le Banquet | |
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| Friendships | |
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| A Portrait | |
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| Holidays 1892 | |
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| Renan | |
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| Platonic Love | |
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| Other Friends | |
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| Willie Heath | |
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| Madeleine Lemaire | |
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| The Encounter with Robert de Montesquiou | |
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| Music | |
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| The Genesis of Les Plaisirs et les Jours | |
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| Saint-Moritz | |
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| The New Term, 1893 | |
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| How Not to Choose a Career | |
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| Further Essays for La Revue blanche | |
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| A Stormy Friendship | |
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| Leon Delafosse | |
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| Autumn at Versailles | |
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| The Chateau de Reveillon | |
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| Reynaldo Hahn | |
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| Trouville, Moonlight and 'Baldassare' | |
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| 'La Confession d'une jeune fille' | |
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| The New Term, 1894 | |
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| The Philosophy Degree | |
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| Alphonse Daudet | |
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| Faure | |
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| La Vie Parisienne | |
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| 'Portraits de Peintres' | |
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| A Phantom Librarian | |
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| The Pleasures of Jean Santeuil | |
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| Kreuznach | |
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| Saint-Germain-en-Laye | |
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| Dieppe | |
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| Beg-Meil | |
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| Harrison | |
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| Landscapes | |
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| Reveillon | |
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| Chardin and Rembrandt | |
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| A Dinner Party at Boulevard Malesherbes | |
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| Saint-Saens | |
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| A Publication Constantly Deferred | |
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| An End to Jealousy | |
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| Bourget's Influence | |
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| Proust in Love | |
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| Lucien Daudet | |
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| The Death of Louis Weil | |
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| A Foreword | |
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| Proust and Mallarme | |
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| Les Plaisirs et les Jours: an Appraisal | |
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| Reception of Les Plaisirs et les Jours | |
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| The Death of the Grandfather | |
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| The Death of Edmond de Goncourt | |
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| Hygiene for Asthmatics | |
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| The Break-up | |
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| At Mont-Dore | |
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| From Jean Santeuil to Dreyfus | |
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| Autumn 1896 | |
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| An Imperial Visit | |
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| Fontainebleau | |
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| Being a Writer in 1896 | |
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| Against Stendhal? | |
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| The Writing of Jean Santeuil | |
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| What is Jean Santeuil? | |
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| Winter 1896-7 | |
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| Summer 1897 | |
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| Proust as Reader of Balzac | |
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| Autumn 1897 | |
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| The Death of Daudet | |
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| How Proust Became a Dreyfusard | |
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| The Novel of the Dreyfus Affair: Proust and France | |
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| Robert de Flers | |
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| Summer 1898 | |
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| Proust as Art Critic: Rembrandt and Moreau | |
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| The Cafe Weber | |
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| Comtesse Greffulhe or Unavailing Beauty | |
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| Charles Haas | |
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| Spring 1899 | |
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| Interval by the Lake Shore | |
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| The Bible of Amiens | |
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| The Discovery of Carlyle | |
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| Reading Emerson | |
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| The Artist According to Ruskin | |
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| But Who Was Ruskin? And How Did Proust Know about Him? | |
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| 'Pelerinages Ruskiniens en France' | |
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| The Journey to Venice | |
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| How to Translate? | |
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| 1900 Draws to a Close | |
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| The Second Trip to Venice | |
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| Concluding La Bible d'Amiens | |
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| Anna de Noailles' Circle | |
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| The Death of Edmond de Polignac | |
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| Antoine Bibesco | |
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| Bertrand de Fenelon | |
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| The Trip to Belgium and Holland | |
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| 1903 | |
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| Charles Ephrussi | |
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| Whistler | |
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| Salons | |
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| Robert's Wedding | |
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| Casa-Fuerte | |
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| Albufera and Louisa de Mornand | |
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| The Duc de Guiche | |
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| Gabriel de La Rochefoucauld | |
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| Radziwill | |
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| Francis de Croisset | |
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| The Death of a Father | |
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| Sesame and Lilies | |
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| Translation in 1900 | |
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| Beginning Sesame | |
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| The Press Reception for La Bible d'Amiens | |
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| Proust and Saint-Simon | |
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| The Stages of the Translation | |
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| Other Publications | |
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| Daily Life | |
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| Social Gatherings | |
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| Literary Work | |
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| The Whistler Exhibition | |
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| On Reading | |
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| The Death of Madame Proust | |
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| Mourning (1905-6) | |
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| Proust and Money | |
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| Summer and Moving House | |
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| The Renaissance of Literature | |
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| Returning to Life | |
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| Gainsborough | |
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| 'Filial Feelings of a Parricide' | |
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| Days Spent Reading | |
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| Les Eblouissements by the Comtesse de Noailles | |
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| Music | |
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| A Grandmother | |
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| Summer 1907 in Cabourg | |
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| 'Impressions of the Road in a Motor Car' | |
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| The Return to Paris | |
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| Gustave de Borda | |
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| Towards Sainte-Beuve | |
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| Contre Sainte-Beuve | |
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| Pastiches | |
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| Living for Writing | |
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| Financial Speculations and Virtuous Habits | |
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| Contre Sainte-Beuve | |
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| Cabourg, Summer 1908 | |
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| Versailles in the Autumn of 1908 | |
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| Sainte-Beuve (late 1908-9) | |
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| The Metamorphosis of Contre Sainte-Beuve (1909-11) | |
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| The Death of Madame Caillavet | |
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| 1910 | |
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| Celine and Nicolas Cottin | |
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| Cabourg 1910 | |
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| Autumn 1910 | |
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| Jean Cocteau | |
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| 1911 | |
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| From Pelleas to Saint Sebastien | |
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| Cabourg 1911 | |
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| Autumn 1911 | |
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| Albert Nahmias | |
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| The Novel of 1911 | |
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| 'Le Temps perdu' (1912-13) | |
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| An Overview of the Writing Process | |
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| The Division into Volumes and Choice of Title | |
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| 1912 | |
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| Cabourg 1912 | |
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| Autumn: In Search of a Publisher | |
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| Beginning Again | |
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| Bernard Grasset | |
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| Agostinelli | |
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| Cabourg 1913 | |
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| Title and Structure, 1913 | |
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| Proofs and the Grasset Edition | |
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| Launch and Publication of Du cote de chez Swann | |
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| The Fugitive | |
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| The Novel of 1914 | |
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| Composition | |
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| Celeste Albaret | |
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| A Review of the Press and Other Reactions to Swann | |
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| From One Publisher to Another: The Return of Fasquelle, Gide and the NRF | |
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| Music and Pianola | |
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| Financial Debacle | |
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| Agostinelli Disappears | |
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| War | |
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| Cabourg for the Last Time, Forssgren | |
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| Military Discharge, Against Chauvinism | |
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| Daily Life in 1915 | |
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| Friends Living or Dead | |
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| Fighting the Army | |
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| Proust, the Press and the War | |
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| An End to Speculation | |
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| Writing in 1915 | |
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| Writing in 1916 | |
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| Daily Life in 1916 | |
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| Music | |
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| Reading | |
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| From Grasset to Gallimard | |
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| Gaston Gallimard | |
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| Paul Morand | |
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| 1917: The Ritz | |
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| With Gallimard | |
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| A Hectic Life | |
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| Helene Soutzo | |
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| Health | |
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| New Friendships | |
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| The Death of Emmanuel Bibesco | |
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| The Novel of 1918 | |
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| From Sodome to La Fugitive | |
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| War in the Novel | |
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| M. de Charlus' Pleasures | |
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| Daily Life in 1918 | |
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| Henri Rochat | |
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| History, War, Politics | |
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| Reading | |
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| Publishers and New Editions | |
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| The Saint-Simon Pastiche | |
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| The Foreword to Propos de peintre, De David a Degas | |
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| Daily Life in 1919 | |
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| Sydney Schiff | |
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| Rue Laurent-Pichat | |
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| Publishing in 1919 | |
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| Press reception of A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs | |
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| Reading | |
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| The Quarrel of 'The Intelligence Party' | |
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| Rue Hamelin | |
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| The Prix Goncourt | |
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| Daily Life in 1920 | |
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| Jacques Riviere | |
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| Le Cote de Guermantes I | |
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| Reception of Le Cote de Guermantes I | |
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| Social Life | |
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| Pierre de Polignac, Boni de Castellane and Others | |
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| Literary Friends | |
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| Newspaper Surveys | |
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| Introductions and Articles | |
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| Proust and Anatole France (Conclusion) | |
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| Health Problems | |
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| 'Cursus honorum' | |
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| Between Life and Death | |
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| Health | |
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| Magazines and Correspondence | |
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| Preparation for Le Cote de Guermantes II--Sodome I | |
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| Francois Mauriac | |
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| The Launch of Guermantes II | |
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| Reception of Le Cote de Guermantes II and Sodome et Gomorrhe I | |
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| Discussions with Gide | |
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| Farewell to Montesquiou | |
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| Preparation for Sodome et Gomorrhe II | |
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| An Exhibition | |
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| Rochat Leaves | |
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| The Norwegian Philosopher | |
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| New Year's Eve, 1921 | |
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| 1922 | |
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| Reactions to Sodome II | |
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| Sodome et Gomorrhe II, III, IV | |
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| Additions | |
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| The End of Le Temps retrouve | |
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| Daily Life in 1922 | |
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| Albertine disparue | |
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| Death | |
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| List of Abbreviations | |
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| Notes | |
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| Select Bibliography | |
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| Index | |