(This book is more than the autobiography of an extraordin...)
This book is more than the autobiography of an extraordinary woman. It is also the story of a century of French history as lived through the experiences and fates of three generations, the tumultuous history of the birth of modern France and the transformation of a society. "
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("George Sand's delightful last novel takes the timeless t...)
"George Sand's delightful last novel takes the timeless theme of a younger woman in love with an older man and gives the stuff of nineteenth century romance a modern feminist twist at the same time that it subtly attacks that other Marianne, the French Republic's convention-bound Muse."--P. 4 of cover.
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(These selections from George Sand's journals form an inte...)
These selections from George Sand's journals form an integrated whole and show Sand as a woman, lover, mother, artist, politician, chatelaine, and friend. Sand's journal writing is thought by many to be her most expressive and natural; here the artist's most complex and interesting character is revealed: George Sand herself.
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(On George Sand: Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin (1 July 1804...)
On George Sand: Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin (1 July 1804 8 June 1876), best known by her pseudonym George Sand, was a French novelist and memoirist. She is equally well known for her much publicized romantic affairs with a number of artists, including the composer and pianist Frédéric Chopin and the writer Alfred de Musset. (Source: Wikipedia.org) Major Works of George Sand contains: An aesthetic cover page A beginning click-able Table of Contents for all titles Inner click-able Tables of Contents for all individual books with multiple chapters Nicely organized chapters and text Authors works in this collection include: INDIANA MAUPRAT THE DEVIL'S POOL THE GEORGE SAND-GUSTAVE FLAUBERT LETTERS
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( Regarded as one of Sand's best novels, Lélia is an impo...)
Regarded as one of Sand's best novels, Lélia 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 by suggesting that both the prostitute and the married woman were slaves to male desire. Sand also questioned monogamy, fidelity, and monastic celibacy. She later made an unsuccessful attempt to revise the book and to expunge its despair and skepticism. Although Sand wrote copiously, until recently only a handful of her books were available in English. This first English translation of Lélia is an excellent rendering, capturing the raptures, the mysticism, and the nineteenth-century flavor ot its eternally fascinating subject.
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(This collection of literature attempts to compile many of...)
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.
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(Mauprat by George Sand is a classic of French literature,...)
Mauprat by George Sand is a classic of French literature, available here in an authoritative English translation. The story is directly inspired by several literary genres, among them gothic fiction, the romances of the Middle Ages and the classic fairy tale. This multi-genre adoption was the signature style of the author, appearing in the majority of her longer form fictional works. Deferring to the virtues Sand sees in women, we see here the tale of a female protagonist whose job it is to settle a former hero - Bernard Mauprat - into ordinary life and society. In doing so she becomes a heroine herself, bravely confronting the hero's negative qualities with a diligence all her own. The tale is narrated by an older Mauprat who reminisces about his younger days prior to the French revolution and subsequent wars - thus the book also carries a notable element of the coming of age story. For her part, George Sand was curious about exploring the ideas of social equality and what that meant for her gender. As such, Mauprat features characters such as the working class Patience who holds her own visionary ideals of society.
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( "An admirable ruse, indeed! To inspire in me the horror...)
"An admirable ruse, indeed! To inspire in me the horror of females, only to throw it in my face and say: but this is what you are." The handsome, heroic heir to a vast estate, raised as a man to follow a man's pursuits and to despise women, is devastated to learn at the age of seventeen that he is in fact a she. Gabriel courageously refuses to give up her male privileges, and her tragic struggle to work and fight and love in all the ways she knows how offers a window into the obstacles faced by George Sand, the prolific intellectual woman whom the popular press portrayed as a promiscuous, cigar-smoking oddity in trousers. "Strange that the most virile talent of our time should be a woman's!" exclaimed a reviewer in 1838. Kathleen Robin Hart's introduction contextualizes the drama, discussing its relation to the theater of Sand's day, the sentimental tradition, the subversive workings of carnival and masquerade, and the vein of literary androgyny in Romantic works. Kathleen Robin Hart's introduction contextualizes the drama, discussing its relation to the theater of Sand's day, the sentimental tradition, the subversive workings of carnival and masquerade, and the vein of literary androgyny in Romantic works.
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("The Devil's Pool" (1846) is a rural novel by George Sand...)
"The Devil's Pool" (1846) is a rural novel by George Sand, drawing from her childhood experiences of the countryside.
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(Many illustrations, including 32 color plates. Revised En...)
Many illustrations, including 32 color plates. Revised English translation from original 1st French edition. Preface. Account of 1838-39 winter Frederick Chopin + George Sand spent as lovers in monastery at Valldemossa on Mallorca (the island). Chopin wrote some of best compositions on the island.
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(Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin 1804 1876, best known by h...)
Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin 1804 1876, best known by her pseudonym George Sand was a French novelist and memoirist. She is equally well known for her much publicized romantic affairs with a number of celebrities including Frédéric Chopin and Alfred de Musset. She was known well in far reaches of the world, and her social practices, her writings and her beliefs prompted much commentary, often by other luminaries in the world of arts and letters. In this book: The Devil's Pool Mauprat
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George Sand was born Armandine Aurore Lucille Dupin in Paris, France on July 1, 1804. On her father's side she was related to a line of kings and to the Maréchal de Saxe; her mother was the daughter of a professional bird fancier. Aurore's father, Maurice Dupin, was a soldier of the Empire. He died when Aurore was still a child.
At the age of 14, tired of being the "apple of discord" between her mother and grandmother, Aurore went to the convent of the Dames Augustines Anglaises in Paris. Though she did her best to disrupt the convent's peaceful life, she felt drawn to quiet contemplation and direct communication with God. To save Aurore from mysticism, her grandmother called her to her home in Nohant. Here Aurore studied nature, practiced medicine on the peasants, read from the philosophers of all ages, and developed a passion for the works of François René Chateaubriand. Her eccentric tutor encouraged her to wear men's clothing while horseback riding, and she galloped through the countryside in trousers and loose shirt, free, wild, and in love with nature.
When Sand's grandmother died, Aurore became mistress of the estate at Nohant.
At the age of 27 Aurore moved to Paris and began writing articles to earn her living and met a coterie of writers. Henri de Latouche and Charles Sainte-Beuve became her mentors. She and her sweetheart Jules Sandeau collaborated on articles and signed them collectively "J. Sand. " When she published her first novel, Indiana (1832), she took as her pen name "George Sand. " Several novels of disillusioned love were the fruit of the period of her life spent with Jules Sandeau.
Every night from midnight until dawn, George Sand covered her daily quota of 20 pages with her large, tranquil writing, never crossing out a line. All her novels are love stories in which her romantic idealism unfolds in a realistic setting. The characters are people she knew, although their sentiments are idealized. The early works by George Sand are novels of passion, written to alleviate the pain of her first love affairs. Indiana (1832) has as its central theme woman's search for the absolute in love. Valentine (1832) depicts an aristocratic woman, unhappily married, who finds that a farmer's son loves her. Lélia (1854) is a lyrical but searching confession of the author's own physical coldness. Lélia is a beautiful woman loved by a young poet, but she can show him only maternal affection.
During the 1840's George Sand wrote a number of novels in which she exposed her socialist doctrine joined with a humanitarian religion.
Le Compagnon du tour de France (1840), Consuelo (1842 - 1843), and Le Péché de Monsieur Antoine (1847) are typical novels of this period. Her socialism was of an optimistic, idealistic nature. She sympathized in these novels with the plight of the worker and the farmer. She also wrote a number of novels devoted to country life, most produced during her retreat to Nohant at the time of the 1848 uprising. La Mare au diable (1846), La Petite Fadette (1849), and Les Maîtres sonneurs (1852) are typical novels of this genre. They celebrate the humble virtues of a simple life and offer idealized portraits of the peasants of Berry. George Sand's last works show a tendency to moralize; in these novels the characters become incarnated theories rather than human beings.
As she grew older, George Sand spent more and more time at her beloved Nohant and gave herself up to the intoxications of pastoral life, the entertainment of friends, the staging of puppet shows, and most of all to her grandchildren. Though she had lost none of her vital energy and enthusiasm, she grew less concerned with politics. Her quest for the absolute in love had led her through years of stormy affairs to the attainment of a tolerant and universal love-of God, of nature, of children. She died in Nohant on June 9, 1876.
George Sand is best-known for her so-called rustic novels and for her much publicized romantic affairs.
("George Sand's delightful last novel takes the timeless t...)
(This collection of literature attempts to compile many of...)
(These selections from George Sand's journals form an inte...)
(On George Sand: Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin (1 July 1804...)
( "An admirable ruse, indeed! To inspire in me the horror...)
(Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin 1804 1876, best known by h...)
("The Devil's Pool" (1846) is a rural novel by George Sand...)
(Mauprat by George Sand is a classic of French literature,...)
( Regarded as one of Sand's best novels, Lélia is an impo...)
(This book is more than the autobiography of an extraordin...)
(Many illustrations, including 32 color plates. Revised En...)
She was a Christian of sorts and advocated a socially conscious religion.
George Sand was a democrat; she felt close to the people by birth, and she often praised the humble virtues of the urban and country poor in her novels. Like Jean Jacques Rosseau, she believed that inherently good man was corrupted by civilization and faulty institutions. Despite her own feminist leanings, George Sand never advocated political equality for women. It was in love that she demanded equality, in the free choice of the love object; the inequality of men and women before the law seemed to her a scandal.
At 19 she married Casimir Dudevant, the son of a baron and a servant girl. He was goodhearted but coarse and sensual, and he offended her lofty and mystical ideal of love. Aurore soon began to seek her idealized love object elsewhere. For a time she maintained a platonic relationship with Aurélien de Sèze, but eventually this affair languished. She had begun to realize that it was impossible to sustain love without physical passion.
At the age of 27 Aurore moved to Paris in search of independence and love, leaving husband and children behind. Aurore fell in love with Jules Sandeau, a charming young writer. George Sand made a home for Sandeau and for her daughter, Solange, but eventually she wearied of his jealousy and idle disposition. He, in turn, realized that he could never overcome her essential frigidity. She felt as though she had failed in marriage as well as in adultery. Then she met the young poet Alfred de Musset, and they became lovers. George Sand legally separated from her husband; she gained custody over Solange, while her husband kept the other child, Maurice. She now came to enjoy great renown in Paris both as a writer and as a bold and brilliant woman. She had many admirers and chose new lovers from among them. Her lovers included the Polish composer Frédéric Chopin and the doctor who attended Musset in Venice. Perhaps it was her inability to be aroused to physical passion that drove her from one lover to another. She compensated for this deficiency by the spiritual intensity of her love.
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