The Lost Estate

Resumen del libro

'He too began to chase the great pierrot through the corridors of the chateau...' This is a novel of desperate yearning and vanished adolescence, the story of Meaulnes and his restless search for a lost, enchanted world has the atmosphere of a dream and the purity of a fairy tale. It is a new series of twenty distinctive, unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design and pocket-sized format, with coloured jackets echoing Penguin's original covers.

Biografía del autor

Alain-Fournier, pseudonyme d'Henri-Alban Fournier, né le 3 octobre 1886 à La Chapelle-d'Angillon dans le Cher et tué au combat le 22 septembre 1914 (à 27 ans) à Saint-Remy-la-Calonne, est un écrivain français, dont l' uvre la plus célèbre est Le Grand Meaulnes (1913).