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The Lost Domain: Le Grand Meaulnes
Alain-Fournier
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Description for The Lost Domain: Le Grand Meaulnes
Hardback. Alain-Fournier's lyrical novel captures the painful transition from adolescence to adulthood. First published in 1913, its story of the lost domain where le grand Meaulnes meets a beautiful girl, and his search to recover his love, has haunted readers ever since. Now published with a new Introduction by Hermione Lee in its centenary year. Translator(s): Davison, Frank. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 358.
The arrival of Augustin Meaulnes at a small provincial secondary school sets in train a series of events that will have a profound effect on his life, and that of his new friend François Seurel. It is Seurel who recalls the impact of le grand Meaulnes, disruptive and charismatic, on his schoolmates, and the encounter that is to haunt them both. Lost, and alone, Meaulnes stumbles upon an isolated house, mysterious revels, and a beautiful girl. When he returns to Seurel it is with the fixed determination to find the house again, and the girl with whom he has fallen ... Read more
The arrival of Augustin Meaulnes at a small provincial secondary school sets in train a series of events that will have a profound effect on his life, and that of his new friend François Seurel. It is Seurel who recalls the impact of le grand Meaulnes, disruptive and charismatic, on his schoolmates, and the encounter that is to haunt them both. Lost, and alone, Meaulnes stumbles upon an isolated house, mysterious revels, and a beautiful girl. When he returns to Seurel it is with the fixed determination to find the house again, and the girl with whom he has fallen ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
232
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
354g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199678686
SKU
V9780199678686
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About Alain-Fournier
Alain-Fournier was the pseudonym of Henri Alban-Fournier, whose only novel, Le Grand Meaulnes (The Lost Domain) was published the year before he was killed in action in 1914, at the age of 27. Like the narrator of his novel, Alain-Fournier was the son of a schoolteacher, and a chance meeting with a girl on the banks of the Seine became ... Read more
Reviews for The Lost Domain: Le Grand Meaulnes
There is no greater or stranger tale of French pre-1914 literature.
Richard Lofthouse, Oxford Today
For its handsome centenary edition, Oxford University Press has chosen to reprint the admirable 1959 translation by Frank Davison under the title 'The Lost Domain'... Hermione Lee has written an introduction for the centenary edition-rich in biographical detail but also a fine critical ... Read more
Richard Lofthouse, Oxford Today
For its handsome centenary edition, Oxford University Press has chosen to reprint the admirable 1959 translation by Frank Davison under the title 'The Lost Domain'... Hermione Lee has written an introduction for the centenary edition-rich in biographical detail but also a fine critical ... Read more