The Prisoner and The Fugitive by Marcel Proust
The Prisoner and The Fugitive

Marcel Proust

692 pages first pub 1925 (editions)

fiction classics literary challenging reflective slow-paced
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The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and The Fugitive (1925). In The Captive, Proust’s narrator describes living in his mother’s Paris apartment with his lover, Albertine, and subsequently fa...

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4.28
based on 253 reviews

Moods

reflective: 91%

challenging: 66%

emotional: 33%

sad: 25%

dark: 8%

inspiring: 8%

mysterious: 8%


Pace

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91% of readers chose slow
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Strong character development?

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25% of readers chose No
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Loveable characters?

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58% of readers chose Complicated
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