The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes) (Paperback)

from barbararobson

My husband to be recommended this when I was nineteen. His recommendations were always perfect, unlike me he only read the best! It had a huge and lasting impact on me. Pity about the film "The Wanderer" but then it is often difficult to translate the page to the screen.

from bcquinnsmom

One of the few books to which I have given 5 stars in a long while, Le Grand Meaulnes is likely one of the best books I've read in a very, very long time. Set in France of last century, the story is narrated by one Francois Seurel, the son of the local schoolmaster. Seurel's father takes in a new...

from Michael.Rimmer

I was really enjoying the feel of this book until the last twenty-or-so pages, when Alain-Fournier gathered together the strands he'd carefully laid in the preceding 180 pages and wove a cloth of infinitely finer emotional texture. Despite the revelation of "The Secret" having a certain melodrama...

from Cecrow

This is a story about the unreality of first love, positioning it as the dying gasp of childhood meeting the first blush of adulthood. The sense of unreality that is attached to it, the intensity of its romanticism that makes it forever cling to memory, arises from a final tie to childhood's visi...

from neurodrew

Le Grand Meaulnes Alain-Fournier First published in 1913, this novel is set in rural France in the last decade of the 19th century. It is a love story and a story of adolescent development, full of irrational and romantic behavior. The narrator is M. Seurel, a student in the upper form, in a rura...