The lost estate = Le grande meaulnes
Alain-Fournier, 1886-1914200708UU
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When Meaulnes first arrives at the local school in Sologne, everyone is captivated by his good looks, daring and charisma. But when he disappears for several days, and returns with tales of a strange party at a mysterious house and a beautiful girl hidden within it, Meaulnes has been changed forever. When Meaulnes first arrives at the local school in Sologne, everyone is captivated by his good looks, daring and charisma. But when he disappears for several days, and returns with tales of a strange party at a mysterious house and a beautiful girl hidden within it, Meaulnes has been changed forever. In his restless search for 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 a moving portrayal of vanished adolescence.
Main title:
The lost estate = Le grande meaulnes / Henri Alain-Fournier ; tranlsated by Robin Buss with an introduction by Adam Gopnik.
Publisher:
London : Penguin, 2007.
Collation:
256 p. ; 20x13x2 cm.
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Notes:
Translated from the French.
ISBN:
9780141033464 (pbk)0141033460 (pbk)
Language:
English
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BRN:
3980100
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