Le Grand Meaulnes

The only novel by a brilliant young man who was killed in action in 1914 at the age of twenty-seven, it is a masterly exploration of the twilight world between boyhood and manhood, with its mixture of idealism, realism and sheer caprice.

But that is not its only magic - there is a magic of setting, of narrative, of the haunting beauty of the heroine, of the inexplicable elusiveness of the 'lost domain' itself...