Hardcover, 512 pages
English language
Published Sept. 30, 2005 by Barnes & Noble Classics.
Swann's Way
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Monty Python paid hommage to Proust's novel in a sketch first broadcast on November 16th, 1972, called The All-England Summarize Proust Competition. The winner was the contestant who could best summarize A la recherche du temps perdu in fifteen seconds, "once in a swimsuit and once in evening dress."
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- Literature - Classics / Criticism
- Fiction
- Literature: Classics
- Classics
- BG-CLASSIC EDITIONS - BG-B&N CLASSICS
- Fiction / Classics
- Autobiographical fiction
- France
- Social life and customs