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Alain-Fournier

British  
/ alɛ̃furnje /

noun

  1. real name Henri-Alban Fournier. 1886–1914, French novelist; author of Le Grand Meaulnes (1913; translated as The Lost Domain, 1959)

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It is the story of a 17-year-old schoolboy to whom strange coincidence and his own imagination bring an experience of what Alain-Fournier called "the other mysterious landscape."

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