Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier

"Le Grand Meaulnes" by Alain-Fournier is a novel published in 1913. Fifteen-year-old François narrates the story of his friendship with the heroic Augustin Meaulnes, who stumbles upon a mysterious château and an enchanting girl at a costume party. After returning to school, Meaulnes becomes obsessed with finding both the lost estate and his dream girl, Yvonne de Galais. This romantic tale explores the search for the unobtainable and the elusive passage between childhood and adulthood in rural France. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Alain-Fournier, 1886-1914
Title Le Grand Meaulnes
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Grand_Meaulnes
Credits Walter Debeuf, updated by Laurent Vogel (using images
generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de
France (BnF/Gallica) at gallica.bnf.fr)
Reading Level Reading ease score: 79.1 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language French
LoC Class PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Subject First loves -- Fiction
Subject Bildungsromans
Subject France -- Fiction
Subject Teenage boys -- Fiction
Subject French fiction -- 20th century
Category Text
eBook-No. 5781
Release Date
Last Update Dec 5, 2020
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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