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Tag: Lisa Brown

How To Read Proust In the Original

This item is by Lisa Brown was taken from the New York Times Book Review.

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Posted on 03/03/2017 by MikePosted in Authors, Books, Literature, Modern World, ReadingTagged À la Recherche du Temps Perdu, Lisa Brown, madeleine moment, Marcel Prust, New York Times Book Review. Leave a comment

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