How Long to Read The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes)

How Long Does it Take to Read The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes)?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 38 minutes to read The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes) by Henri Alain-Fournier

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

'I read it for the first time when I was seventeen and loved every page. I find its depiction of a golden time and place just as poignant now as I did then' Nick Hornby The Lost Estate is Robin Buss's translation of Henri Alain-Fournier's poignant study of lost love, Le Grand Meaulnes. When Meaulnes first arrives at the local school in Sologne, everyone is captivated by his good looks, daring and charisma. But when Meaulnes disappears for several days, and returns with tales of a strange party at a mysterious house - and his love for the beautiful girl hidden within it, Yvonne de Galais - his life has been changed forever. In his restless search for his Lost Estate and the happiness he found there, Meaulnes, observed by his loyal friend Francois, may risk losing everything he ever had. Poised between youthful admiration and adult resignation, Alain-Fournier's compelling narrator carries the reader through this evocative and unbearably poignant portrayal of desperate friendship and vanished adolescence. Robin Buss's translation of Le Grand Meaulnes sensitively and accurately renders Alain-Fournier's poetically charged, expressive and deceptively simple style. In his introduction, New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik discusses the life of Alain-Fournier, who was killed in the First World War after writing this, his only novel. If you liked Le Grand Meaulnes, you might enjoy Gustave Flaubert's Sentimental Education, also available in Penguin Classics.

How long is The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes)?

The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes) by Henri Alain-Fournier is 274 pages long, and a total of 69,596 words.

This makes it 92% the length of the average book. It also has 85% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes) Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 20 minutes to read The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes) aloud.

What Reading Level is The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes)?

The Lost Estate (Le Grand Meaulnes) is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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