{"product_id":"the-great-meaulnes-david-petault-9798288109966","title":"The Great Meaulnes: A New Translation","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt seventeen, Augustin Meaulnes arrives at a remote country school in central France and transforms the quiet world of fifteen-year-old François Seurel. Tall, charismatic, and restless, Meaulnes becomes \"le Grand Meaulnes\"-the great Meaulnes-to his awestruck classmates.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThen, one winter evening, he disappears.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLost in the countryside, Meaulnes stumbles upon an extraordinary gathering at a half-forgotten château-a dreamlike fête where children in costume dance through candlelit halls, and where he encounters Yvonne de Galais, a young woman who will haunt him for the rest of his life. In that single enchanted night, he discovers something he can never fully name or reclaim: a realm of perfect beauty, innocence, and possibility.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat follows is an obsessive quest to return to that lost domain, to find Yvonne again, and to recapture the transcendent moment when everything seemed possible. But the distance between adolescent dreams and adult realities proves devastating-and some paradises, once lost, can never be recovered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished in 1913, a year before \u003cb\u003eAlain-Fournier\u003c\/b\u003e's death in the First World War, \u003ci\u003eLe Grand Meaulnes\u003c\/i\u003e remains one of French literature's most beloved novels. John Fowles called it \"the greatest novel of adolescence in European literature\"-a haunting meditation on first love, lost innocence, and the painful passage from youth to adulthood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition presents Alain-Fournier's only completed novel in clear, contemporary English that preserves the dreamlike beauty of his prose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Petault,Alain-Fournier\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798288109966\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/14\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 266\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.72lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.66d","brand":"David Petault","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997002739967,"sku":"9798288109966","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-great-meaulnes-david-petault-9798288109966","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}