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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 is a biographer, critic, and teacher of literature. Her previous books include the internationally acclaimed biography, Virginia Woolf ('One of the most impressive biographies of the decade: moving, eloquent, powerful', Financial Times) and Edith Wharton ('A feat of exhaustive research... a glorious biography', Independent on Sunday), as well as books on Elizabeth Bowen, Willa Cather and Philip Roth. Her collection of essays on life-writing, Body Parts, was published in 2005, and her Biography: A Very Short Introduction in 2009. She is the President of Wolfson College Oxford. In 2013 she was made a Dame for services to Literary Scholarship. She lives in Oxford and Yorkshire.

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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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