On September 22, 1914, the French writer Henri Alban Fournier, who went by the demi-pseudonyme Alain-Fournier, was reported missing in action near Verdun. He had published, barely a year before, a ...

It was Alain-Fournier's only novel. Less than a year later, the 27-year-old author was killed in the first weeks of World War I. The novel has never been out of print in France and has been filmed ...

Alain-Fournier was an Anglophile – he actually spent a few months in the London suburbs working for the wallpaper firm Sanderson’s – and he loved English art (the Pre-Raphaelites) and ...

Alain-Fournier was the pen name of Henri Alban Fournier, who at 28 was killed at the outbreak of World War I in 1914. A year earlier, he had published this, his only novel, inspired by his struck ...

Alain-Fournier readily conceded the semi-autobiographical nature of his book, published in 1913 when he was 27. The school and teachers – his own parents – are easily recognisable, as is the ...

For Alain-Fournier, there were his lieutenant's stripes. But not only those. "The stature matched, the age matched, the shape of the face too," Adam said.

Alain-Fournier—an oddly hyphenated semi-pseudonym adopted to avoid confusion with a racing driver—was misspelled by an editor the first time Fournier used it, and is still often mangled.

The scent of fresh pencils is in the air, and homework assignments are around the corner. In honor of back-to-school season, author Alexander Aciman recommends The Lost Estate by Henri Alain-Fournier.

Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier was Radio 4's Classic Serial in August. The novel cast a spell over a whole generation of French readers in the twentieth century, with its romanticism, its ...