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Le Grand Meaulnes

Alain-Fournier

Le Grand Meaulnes

Paper book: €30.99

Digital: €13.99

Original publication
1913
Bilingual edition
22 October 2026
Pages
557
Difficulty
Medium
Genres
Romance, Adventure
Moods
Be enchanted, Fall in love, Be moved to tears, Travel back in time
Translated from
French

Book summary

One Sunday in November, Augustin Meaulnes, a daring teenager, arrives at the school in Sainte-Agathe and fascinates François, the schoolmaster's son. During an escapade, Meaulnes gets lost and comes to a mysterious estate where a strange celebration is being prepared. There he meets a young woman he will never stop searching for.

A novel of adolescence, dreams and nostalgia, which keeps alive the memory of that moment when we believe anything is possible.

François tells the story as a memory, and the novel is a pleasure to read in the language you are learning.

The plot

A party where the children decide everything. Lost in the countryside in the dead of winter, Augustin Meaulnes, a tall boy of seventeen, comes upon an old estate. A wedding is being prepared: the son of the house is…

The world of the book

A village school, around 1890. The novel is set in a village in the Cher département, in central France. François, who tells the story, lives at the school: his father teaches the older pupils there, his mother the…

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