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Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time from Vintage Books is a reader's guide to all seven volumes of Marcel Proust's great novel* and includes the following unique features:

• A detailed synopsis of all seven volumes
• An alphabetical study of more than fifty major characters
• A brief biography of Marcel Proust
• The historical and social background to the novel including chapters on the Dreyfus Affair and the Belle Époque
• Detailed family trees of characters in the novel as well as of Proust's own family
• Contemporary map of Paris showing where Proust and his fictional characters lived
• Drawings of some of the characters in the novel
• Contemporary photographs and paintings of some of the real life people who inspired the author

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