ALAIN-FOURNIER [PSEUD. ALBAN-FOURNIER, HENRI]. The Wanderer. Translated by Francoise Delisle. Introduction by Fredrika Blair. Doubleday Anchor Books/Doubleday & Company Inc., New York 1953. 8°. 256 pages. Paperback. In private slip case. ¶ From 1910 to 1912, while working as the personal assistant to the politician Casimir Perrier, Alain-Fournier worked on his novel, »Le Grand Meaulnes«, based on a number of different episodes and real persons in the author's life. The novel was published in 1913, first in the Nouvelle Revue Francaise, and then as a book. The novel was nominated for, but did not win, the prestigious Goncourt Prize.
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