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Alain-Fournier's Lost Estate

  • Imprint: BBC Digital Audio

  • ISBN: 9781471387128

  • RRP: £3.00

Alain-Fournier's Lost Estate

  • Lost Love In Paris

Novelist Julian Barnes and biographer Hermione Lee conclude their exploration of Le Grand Meaulnes by researching the inspiration behind its female characters. The presenters recount Fournier's youthful infatuation with a Parisian woman, and how she was later reimagined as Yvonne de Galais in the novel, and also examine how a stay in London influenced the writer. Readings by Philip Franks from a translation by Frank Davison.

  • Imprint: BBC Digital Audio

  • ISBN: 9781471387128

  • RRP: £3.00

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Hermione Lee

Hermione Lee's previous books include the biographical studies Elizabeth Bowen and Willa Cather, the internationally acclaimed biography Virginia Woolf, and Edith Wharton, longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. She is a well-known reviewer and broadcaster, and, in 2006, Chair of the judges for the Man Booker Prize. She is the first woman Goldsmiths' Professor of English at Oxford University, a Fellow of New College, Oxford, of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature. She was awarded a CBE in 2003 for services to literature.

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Julian Barnes

Julian Barnes is the author of twelve novels, including The Sense of an Ending, which won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. He has also written three books of short stories, four collections of essays and two books of non-fiction, Nothing to be Frightened Of and the Sunday Times number one bestseller Levels of Life. In 2017 he was awarded the Légion d'honneur.

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