'Le Grand Meaulnes' was first published in 1913. It was Alain-Fournier's only novel. Less than a year later, the 27-year-old author was killed in the first weeks of World War I. The novel has never ...

I still say 'our' house though it is ours no longer; nearly fifteen years have passed since we left the neighbourhood, and we shall not be going back to it. The narrator is François Seurel, a solitary ...