The Resource The Foundling Boy
The Foundling Boy
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The item The Foundling Boy represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item The Foundling Boy represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Contributor
- ImzB3OpvrZ0
- Summary
- It is 1919. On a summer's night in Normandy, a new-born baby is left in a basket outside the home of Albert and Jeanne Arnaud. The childless couple take the foundling in, name him Jean, and decide to raise him as their own, though his parentage remains a mystery. Though Jean's life is never dull, he grows up knowing little of what lies beyond his local area. Until the day he sets off on his bicycle to discover the world, and encounters a Europe on the threshold of interesting times..
- Language
- eng
- Isbn
- 9781908313591
- Label
- The Foundling Boy
- Title
- The Foundling Boy
- Statement of responsibility
- by Michel Deon
- Contributor
- ImzB3OpvrZ0
- Subject
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- trueBirthparents
- trueSelf-discovery in teenage boys
- trueQuests
- trueFamily estates
- trueAbandoned children
- truePostwar life
- trueWorld War I -- Influence
- trueNormandy
- trueSocial change
- trueFrance -- History -- 20th century
- trueTranslations -- French to English
- trueComing-of-age stories
- trueHistorical Fiction
- trueAristocracy -- France
- trueSeventeen-year-old boys
- trueCaretakers
- trueLiterature
- trueBetween the Wars (1918-1939) -- 1918 -- 1939
- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- It is 1919. On a summer's night in Normandy, a new-born baby is left in a basket outside the home of Albert and Jeanne Arnaud. The childless couple take the foundling in, name him Jean, and decide to raise him as their own, though his parentage remains a mystery. Though Jean's life is never dull, he grows up knowing little of what lies beyond his local area. Until the day he sets off on his bicycle to discover the world, and encounters a Europe on the threshold of interesting times..
- Summary
- Foundling Jean is raised by a childless couple in France, a nation haunted by the end of the First World War, and at age seventeen he embarks on a journey of self-discovery that takes him across a Europe on the verge of change
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- 10316801
- Cataloging source
- BT
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- Déon, Michel
- Evans, Julian
- Dewey number
- 813
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
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- 1955-
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- Evans, Julian
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- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Fiction
- Literature
- Historical Fiction
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The Foundling Boy
- Control code
- OVERDRIVE:95f781ca-548c-4750-8f39-ca4b2ecc91a1
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm.
- Form of item
- electronic
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- True
- Isbn
- 9781908313591
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- True
- Specific material designation
- optical disk
- Label
- The Foundling Boy
- Control code
- OVERDRIVE:95f781ca-548c-4750-8f39-ca4b2ecc91a1
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm.
- Form of item
- electronic
- http://library.link/vocab/inputERC
- True
- Isbn
- 9781908313591
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Specific material designation
- optical disk
Subject
- trueAbandoned children
- trueAristocracy -- France
- trueBetween the Wars (1918-1939) -- 1918 -- 1939
- trueBirthparents
- trueCaretakers
- trueComing-of-age stories
- trueFamily estates
- Fiction
- trueFrance -- History -- 20th century
- trueHistorical Fiction
- trueLiterature
- trueNormandy
- truePostwar life
- trueQuests
- trueSelf-discovery in teenage boys
- trueSeventeen-year-old boys
- trueSocial change
- trueTranslations -- French to English
- trueWorld War I -- Influence
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