LoginThe Wanderer (Le Grand Meaulnes)
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The Wanderer "belongs to, and is the finest example of, a category in fiction that has no name but exists. Unfortunately, the most accurate description would be the novel of adolescence--I say 'unfortunately' because in our time the adolescent has come to be regarded as either a deteriorated child or an insufficient adult, and to speak of a serious novel of adolescence seems almost a contradiction in terms. That, of course, is precisely what Alain-Fournier wrote--and not only a serious novel, but a very great one. It has haunted the European mind since it first appeared in 1913. It is the book one never quite forgets, a boo
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Manufacturer: New American Library
Release date: 11 October 1971
ISBN-10 : B0006C5KVG |
Release date: 11 October 1971
ISBN-10 : B0006C5KVG |
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