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George Sand (1804-1876) war eine französische Schriftstellerin, die neben Romanen auch zahlreiche gesellschaftskritische Beiträge veröffentlichte. Sie setzte sich durch ihre Lebensweise und mit ihren Werken sowohl für feministische als auch für so...

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The Devil's Pool was originally published in 1846. It is the first in a series of four pastoral novels by Sand that focus on the peasant world of the author's home region of Berry. The series also includes and is followed by  Franois the Cham...

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Regarded as one of Sand's best novels, Llia is an important document in the evolution of women's consciousness. Published in 1833, when Sand was 29, it stunned Victorians by advocating the same standard of morality for men and women and ...

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Berättelsen om Consuelo utspelar sig i 1700-talets musikaliska kretsar. Consuelo är en italiensk sångerska vars händelserika liv tar henne till Venedig, Österrike och Böhmen. Romanen anses vara Georges Sands stora verk och Consuelo är, liksom andr...

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Indiana (1831) is an absorbing and vivid romantic novel, set partly in provincial France, partly in Paris, and partly on a tropical island. It tells the story of a beautiful and innocent young woman, married at sixteen to a much older man.

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Indiana (1831) is an absorbing and vivid romantic novel, set partly in provincial France, partly in Paris, and partly on a tropical island. It tells the story of a beautiful and innocent young woman, married at sixteen to a much older man. She fal...

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Deeply engaged with Rousseau's pedagogical treatise "Emile", and with contemporary debate concerning inherited and acquired traits and tendencies, "Mauprat" is an expression of George Sand's Utopian vision of a relationship gov...

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The Master Pipers (1852) is a love story set in the contrasting landscapes of the Berry and Bourbonnais regions in central France. Sand's exploration of the developing relationships of two sets of lovers underlines her belief that both partners in...

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Set in the French countryside of George Sands childhood and narrated in the unique voice of a Berrichon peasant, La Petite Fadette is a beloved 1848 novel about identical twin brothers and Fadette, the mysterious waif with whom they both fall in l...

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Set in the French countryside of George Sands childhood and narrated in the unique voice of a Berrichon peasant, La Petite Fadette is a beloved 1848 novel about identical twin brothers and Fadette, the mysterious waif with whom they both fall in l...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Ther...

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In the early nineteenth century, Juliette Ruyter, a beautiful young Belgian, and her protector, the noble Spaniard Aleo Bustamante, have arrived in Venice just before carnival. The mystery of their union is not clear, until Bustamante mentions tha...

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As the eighteenth century heads toward its tumultuous close, and both France and America hurtle toward revolution, an old family in central France is instead approaching extinction. The ancient line of the passionate Mauprats is divided irreparabl...

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First published in 2008. In this fascinating book, the writer George Sand recounts the story of her 1838 winter in Majorca, a winter she passed in the company of Frederick Chopin. In it she describes the natural beauties of Majorca as well as the ...

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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 Rep...

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Thelma Jurgrau teaches literature and writing at the State University of New York, Empire State College. She has translated many works of George Sand for journals and other publications.

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The Country Waif (Franoise 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 ...

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The first translation of The Countess von Rudolstadt in more than a century brings to contemporary readers one of George Sand's most ambitious and engaging novels, hailed by many scholars of French literature as her masterpiece. Consuelo, or ...

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The first translation of The Countess von Rudolstadt in more than a century brings to contemporary readers one of George Sand''s most ambitious and engaging novels, hailed by many scholars of French literature as her masterpiece. Consuelo, or the ...

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Lucrezia Floriani, a worldly 30-year-old actress and the mother of 4 children with 3 different fathers, meets and falls in love with Prince Karol, a moody, introspective aristocrat.

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Lucrezia Floriani, a worldly 30-year-old actress and the mother of 4 children with 3 different fathers, meets and falls in love with Prince Karol, a moody, introspective aristocrat.

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A drama of loyalty and passion set against a Gothic background. This novel is said to have inspired Wuthering Heights.

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A drama of loyalty and passion set against a Gothic background. This novel is said to have inspired Wuthering Heights.

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This novel reverses the Abbe Prevost's Manon Lescaut and gives Manon's helplessly amoral character to a man, Leoni. Juliette, the girl he seduces, becomes the exponent of undying, endless, forgiving love. The setting is the demimonde of Venice, an...

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This novel reverses the Abbe Prevost's Manon Lescaut and gives Manon's helplessly amoral character to a man, Leoni. Juliette, the girl he seduces, becomes the exponent of undying, endless, forgiving love. The setting is the demimonde of Venice, an...

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Three collections of George Sand's writings: her journal to Alfred de Musset; the Piffoel journal, composed of conversations between her masculine and feminine selves; and a scrapbook the dates of which overlap the two journals. This last compilat...

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"Valentine would come out of her oratory intensely excited, with her nerves on edge and the blood flowing hotly through her veins. At such times Benedict's glances and words laid waste her heart like a stream of molten lava. If he had been hypocri...

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Sir Lionel Bridgemont, a wealthy young English traveller, and Lavinia Buenafè, a young well-born Portuguese girl, had thought, ten years ago when they were betrothed, that their love was forever. But Lionel abandoned her, miserably, breakin...

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