Alain-Fournier's bittersweet novel of youthful ardour and longing is the story of Meaulnes and his search for his lost love. Impulsive, reckless and heroic, Meaulnes embodies the romantic ideal, our search for the unobtainable, and the mysterious world between childhood and adulthood. His beautiful heroine Yvonne is based on the real-life love of the brilliant young author, killed in the First World War after writing this, his only novel.
Édition établie par Philippe Berthier - Chronologie par Bernard Degout
Klasyczna powieść Honoriusza Balzaca przenosi nas do XIX-wiecznego Paryża. Tam, w przepełnionych blichtrem salonach i w dzielnicach nędzy, obserwować możemy ludzkie tragedie i namiętności. Czy jest miejsce na nadzieję?
One of the earliest and most famous novels in Balzac's Comédie humaine, Eugénie Grandet portrays the fall of the Grandet household. In its record of financial acuity, the vicissitudes of the wine trade, and the social and economic consequences of the Revolution, we find a vigorous fictional document of the age.