Audiobooks by Henri Alain-Fournier

Le Grand Meaulnes [The Wanderer]

"Le Grand Meaulnes is one of the great classics of French literature, a mysterious, even impressionistic tale of adolescence in the French countryside in the dying years of the 19th century. A teenager, Agustin Meaulnes, arrives in a country school, and his strong personality immediately affects its rural atmosphere, especially in the eyes of his younger school companion, the 15 year old François. He is dubbed 'le grand Meaulnes', and he lives up to his reputation by going missing for a few days. He says little about his adventure on his return. But François eventually discovers that Meaulnes stumbled upon a strange party held at an unknown chateau, and became enmeshed in the lives of the beautiful young Yvonne de Galais and her brother Frantz. Love, confusion, the urgency of young passion propels these three along unpredictable paths, observed anxiously by François, who desperately wants to help solve and resolve the mysteries. But Meaulnes and Frantz are driven by their own emotions along a trajectory which is anything but simple and straight. Le Grand Meaulnes, regarded by John Fowles as 'the greatest novel of adolescence in European literature' has cast a remarkable spell on successive many generations. In turn elliptical, impressionist, hopeful, haunting, Le Grand Meaulnes made an immediate impression on the French public when it was first published in 1913 (a year before its author died in the First World War) and swiftly gained a permanent place in European literature. The translation by Françoise Delisle has been revised for this recording."

Henri Alain-Fournier (Author), John Hollingworth (Narrator)

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[French] - Le grand Meaulnes

"Un soir de novembre 1910, Monsieur et Madame Seurel, directeurs d'une paisible école de la campagne solognote, reçoivent un nouveau pensionnaire, Augustin Meaulnes, accompagné par sa mère. Le prestige naturel de ce grand adolescent lui vaut d’être bientôt connu de tous les élèves comme le Grand Meaulnes. En partageant la même chambre, Augustin et François, le fils des Seurel, se lient d’amitié.Le nouveau venu éveille rapidement chez le sensible François une véritable fascination..."

Henri Alain-Fournier (Author), Mathurin Voltz (Narrator)

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