Sand takes the timeless theme of a younger woman in love with an older man to create a romance with a feminist twist. Her vivacious heroine is both the author's ideal of female emancipation and a subtle attack on the other Marianne, the French Republic's
The first novel that George Sand wrote without a collaborator, this is not only a vivid romance, but also an impassioned plea for change in the inequitable French marriage laws of the time, and for a new view of women. It tells the story of a beautiful an
A novel of musical life set in the 18th century. The story of Consuelo, a Gypsy singer, and her adventures in Venice, Austria and Bohemia, narrated by the most eminent of French female writers. Sand was a prolific (nearly 60 novels) writer who shocked Par
At the dawn of her life - she was 15 - George Sand began what was to be, 20 years later, her monumental Histoire de ma Vie. The present edition in 10 volumes is the original text as it was published by Victor Lecou and cadot in 1854-1855. Of course George
The first English-language edition of a major work by George Sand. Translated by the winner of the 1994 BOMC-PEN Translation Award. "A courageous work, nowadays unjustly neglected." -- Renee Winegarten "Sand develops her most advanced political, social an
Un jeune veuf, Germain, vit avec ses beaux parents et ses trois enfants. Son beau-père le pousse à se remarier pour le bien des enfants. Germain accepte de rendre visite à une veuve d’une région voisine qui cherche un nouvel époux.Il accepte d’ac
The Country Waif (François le Champi) is the second of the three pastoral novels which rank along with George Sand's autobiographical writing as her finest work. Although simple in themselves, these tales have behind them much of the complex experience o
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Landry et Sylvain sont jumeaux. Un jour, une certaine petite Fadette surgit d'on ne sait où, vient troubler l'existence de ces fils de riches cultivateurs. Qui choisira t-elle entre les deux frères à la fois si complices et si différents ?. Au-delà d