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The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes) (Paperback)
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The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes) (Paperback)
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List price R279
Loot Price R227
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You Save R52 (19%)
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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.
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