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- The Lost Estate (1913)
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The Lost Estate
An unforgettable French masterpiece in the spirit of The Catcher in the Rye in a dazzling new translation When Meaulnes first arrives in Sologne, everyone is captivated by his good looks, daring, and charisma. But when he attends a strange party at a mysterious house with a beautiful girl hidden inside, he is changed forever. Published here in the first new English translation since 1959, this evocative novel has at its center both a Peter Pan in provincial France a kid who refuses to grow up and a Parsifal, pursuing his love to the ends of the earth. Poised between youthful admiration and adult resignation, Alain Fournier’s narrator compellingly carries the reader through this indelible portrait of desperate friendship and vanished adolescence.
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