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The Lost Estate

Henri Alain-Fournier

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1913
Originally in
Originally in French
Pages
Pages 240

A schoolboy watches his older friend stumble into an enchanted party at a hidden country estate and fall in love with a girl there, and spends years chasing the way back to both, a search that finally costs him almost everything it wins.

the house from which we launched our adventures and to which they returned to break themselves like waves on a bare rock.
The Lost Estate, Henri Alain-Fournier

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