The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes)

Author(s): Henri Alain-Fournier

Classics

When Meaulnes first arrives at the local school in Sologne, everyone is captivated by his good looks, daring and charisma. But when Meaulnes disappears for several days, and returns with tales of a strange party at a mysterious house and a beautiful girl hidden within it, he has been changed forever. In his restless search for his Lost Estate and the happiness he found there, Meaulnes, observed by his loyal friend Francois, may risk losing everything he ever had. Poised between youthful admiration and adult resignation, Alain-Fournier's compelling narrator carries the reader through this evocative and unbearably poignant portrayal of desperate friendship and vanished adolescence.


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Alain Fournier was born in La Chapelle d'Angillon in 1886. Le Grand Meaulnes was published in 1912. Les Miracles appeared posthumously in 1924. Alan Fourneir was killed in action on the Lesuse in 1914. Robin Buss is a writer and translator who works for the Independent on Sunday and as television critic for The Times Educational Supplement. He is part-author of the article 'French Literature' in Encyclopaedia Britannica and has published critical studies of works by Vigny and Cocteau, and three books on European cinema, The French Through Their Films (1988), Italian Films (1989) and French Film Noir (1994). He has also translated a number of volumes for Penguin Classics. Adam Gopnik is a New Yorker staff writer and author of the recently published Paris To The Moon.

General Fields

  • : 9780141441894
  • : Penguin UK
  • : Penguin UK
  • : March 2007
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Henri Alain-Fournier
  • : Paperback