The wanderer = Le grand Meaulnes / Alain-Fournier ; translated from the French by Françoise Delisle ; with an introd. by Henri Peyre ; and illus. by Dignimont.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alain-Fournier, 1886-1914.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--Fiction.

World War, 1914-1918.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxx, 232 pages, 32 unnumbered leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Heritage Press, [1958?]

Summary:

When Alain-Fournier was killed in battle on the Meuse in 1914, he left behind Le Grand Meaulnes, a novel of wistful enchantment. The tale is recounted by Francois Seurel, whose father heads the village school where Augustin Meaulnes comes to board. A tall, somber youth of 17, he instantly becomes the class ringleader, and is soon known as le grand Meaulnes. When the youth sets off on an impetuous errand of a few hours and doesn't return for several days, events take a darker turn. After Meaulnes's reappearance, Seurel notices his companion's unrest, and tries to uncover its source. He wakes in the midwinter nights to find Meaulnes pacing the room "like someone rummaging about in his memory, sorting out scraps." Meaulnes remains disconsolate, but finally reveals the nature of his travels, and the strange days of revelry at his unintended destination--the "lost domain" to which he is desperate to return and doesn't know how to find. Seurel rightly guesses that Meaulnes met a young woman there, and that he is in love. "Often afterwards, when he had gone to sleep after trying desperately to recapture that beautiful image, he saw in his dreams a procession of young women who resembled her ... but not one of them was this tall slender girl." The two friends set about retracing Meaulnes's path, and their journeys take them into manhood, when Meaulnes finds at last a way to bring his quest full circle. Alain-Fournier pairs his tightly twisting plot with a poignant nostalgia. His descriptive powers bring to the reader the sights and sounds--the icy winter winds and rattling carriage wheels--from an earlier time, all the while weaving a brilliant affirmation of loyalty and lasting friendship. --editorial review by Joannie Kervran

Contents:

First Part. The Boarder

After Four O'Clock

I Haunted a Basket-Maker's Shop

The Escape

The Cart Comes Back

Some One Knocks at the Window

The Silk Waistcoat

The Adventure

A Halt

The Sheepfold

The Mysterious Manor

Wellington's Room

The Strange Festival

The Strange Festival (continued)

The Meeting

Frantz de Galais

The Strange Festival (concluded). Second Part. The Great Game

We Fall Into an Ambush

The Bohemian at School

Which Deals with the Mysterious Manor

The Man in Sand-Shoes

A Quarrel Behind the Scenes

The Bohemian Takes Off His Bandage

The Police

In Search of the Lost Trail

Washing-Day

I Betray Him

The Three Letters From Maeulnes. Third Part. Bathing

At Florentin's

The Ghost

Great News

The Country Outing

The Country Outing (concluded)

The Wedding Day

Frantz's Call

Happy People

Frantz's House - A Talk in the Rain

The Burden

The Composition Test Book

The Secret

The Secret (continued)

The Secret (concluded)

Epilogue

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has "The Heritage Club Sandglass" no.11:23 laid in at front.

Other Format:

Online version: Alain-Fournier, 1886-1914. Wanderer.

OCLC:

4596486