{"product_id":"the-lost-estate-le-grand-meaulnes-9780141441894","title":"The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes)","description":"By: Henri Alain-Fournier     \u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Lost Estate \u003c\/i\u003eis Robin Buss's translation of Henri Alain-Fournier's poignant study of lost love, \u003ci\u003eLe Grand Meaulnes\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobin Buss's translation of \u003ci\u003eLe Grand Meaulnes\u003c\/i\u003e sensitively and accurately renders Alain-Fournier's poetically charged, expressive and deceptively simple style. In his introduction, \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker \u003c\/i\u003ewriter Adam Gopnik discusses the life of Alain-Fournier, who was killed in the First World War after writing this, his only novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you liked \u003ci\u003eLe Grand Meaulnes\u003c\/i\u003e, you might enjoy Gustave Flaubert's \u003ci\u003eSentimental Education\u003c\/i\u003e, also available in Penguin Classics.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"GB - Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":44216538824931,"sku":"DTRPRUS-9780141441894_P","price":92.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/9780141441894.jpg?v=1734935712","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/en-mo\/products\/the-lost-estate-le-grand-meaulnes-9780141441894","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}