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THE LOST ESTATE (Le Grand Meaulnes) GREAT DIALOGUES OF PLATO—Plato (Signet —Henri Alain-Fournier (Penguin Classics Classics March 656 pp. 978-0-451-53085-1 $6.95) January 256 pp. 978-0-14-144189-4 $14.00) Translated by W.H.D. Rouse. New Introduction by Translated by Robin Buss. Introduction by Matthew S. Santirocco. Contains complete texts Adam Gopnik. “I read it for the first time when of The Republic, The Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Ion, I was seventeen and loved every page. I find Meno, and Symposium. its depiction of a golden time and place just as Replaces 978-0-451-53085-1 poignant now as I did then.”—Nick Hornby. Replaces 978-0-14-018282-8

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