The lost domain
By: Alain-Fournier ; translated from the French by Frank Davison ; afterword by John Fowles ; illustrated by Ian Beck.
Contributors: Davison, Frank.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
Work titles: Le Grand Meaulnes.
Description: The arrival of Augustin Meaulnes at a small provincial secondary school sets in train a series of events that will have a profound effect on his life, and that of his new friend Francois Seurel. It is Seurel who recalls the impact of le grand Meaulnes, disruptive and charismatic, on his schoolmates, and the encounter that is to haunt them both. Lost, and alone, Meaulnes stumbles upon an isolated house, mysterious revels, and a beautiful girl. When he returns to Seurel it is with the fixed determination to find the house again, and the girl with whom he has fallen in love. But the dreamlike days in the lost domain are evanescent, and Meaulnes is torn between his love and competing claims of loyalty and friendship.
Notes: This translation originally published, without illustrations and afterword, in 1959.

Translated from the French, Le Grand Meaulnes.