The Prisoner
by Marcel Proust
French • Volume 5 of In Search of Lost Time • Public Domain • Free to stream
Volume 5 of In Search of Lost Time. The narrator keeps Albertine living in his apartment, consumed by jealousy and obsessive love. A study of possessive desire and the impossibility of truly knowing another person.
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The Prisoner was written by Marcel Proust as volume 5 of In Search of Lost Time.
Is The Prisoner in the public domain?
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The Prisoner takes approximately 14 hours to listen to in full.
When was The Prisoner written?
The Prisoner was first published in 1923. It is now in the public domain and free to stream.
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