Henri Alain-Fournier The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes) (Paperback)
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Further Details Title: The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes) Condition: New EAN: 9780141441894 ISBN: 9780141441894 Publisher: Penguin Classics Format: Paperback Release Date: 05/03/2007 Language: French Item Height: 198mm Item Length: 129mm Item Width: 15mm Item Weight: 191g Author: Henri Alain-Fournier Translator: Robin Buss Contributor: Adam Gopnik (Introduction by), Robin Buss (Translated by) ISBN-10: 0141441895 Description: The Lost Estate is Robin Buss's translation of Henri Alain-Fournier's poignant study of lost love, Le Grand Meaulnes . 'I read it for the first time when I was seventeen and loved every page. I find its depiction of a golden time and place just as poignant now as I did then' Nick Hornby 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 his love for the beautiful girl hidden within it, Yvonne de Galais - his life 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. Robin Buss's translation of Le Grand Meaulnes sensitively and accurately renders Alain-Fournier's poetically charged, expressive and deceptively simple style. In his introduction, New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik discusses the life of Alain-Fournier, who was killed in the First World War after writing this, his only novel. If you liked Le Grand Meaulnes , you might enjoy Gustave Flaubert's Sentimental Education , also available in Penguin Classics. Country/Region of Manufacture: GB Genre: Fiction Topic: Classic Fiction Release Year: 2007 Missing Information? Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
