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Le Grand Meaulnes

by Alain-Fournier · 1913

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In a small village in the Sologne, Fifteen-year-old Francois Seurel narrates the story of his relationship with seventeen-year-old Augustin Meaulnes. Impulsive, reckless and heroic, Meaulnes embodies the romantic ideal, the search for the unobtainable, and the mysterious world between childhood and adulthood.

Genre
literary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of thisromanceromanceMore like thisLess of thiscoming of agecoming of ageMore like thisLess of thisfantasyfantasyMore like thisLess of thismagical realismmagical realismMore like thisLess of this
Themes
coming of agecoming of ageMore like thisLess of this
Setting
EuropeEuropeMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adultyoung adult
Length
medium · 206 pages

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