Veliki Meaulnes

The Great Meaulnes is the only novel by the French writer Alain-Fournier, who was killed in the first month of World War I. The novel, published in 1913, a year before the author's death, is somewhat autobiographical, especially the name of the heroine Yvonne, for whom he was doomed in Paris. Fifteen-year-old François Seurel tells the story of his friendship with seventeen-year-old Augustin Meaulnes as he searches for his lost love. Impulsive, reckless, and heroic.